On 09/13/2013 01:43 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote: > Hiya, > > On 09/13/2013 07:55 AM, Leif Johansson wrote: >>>> If we -- the IETF community -- had a definition of privacy, that would >>>> help, but we don't. >>>> >> Its always entertaining to go trolling back to first principles on one of >> these IETF lists but we've done that before and its typically about as >> useful as random walks through technology. > Well, to be fair to Dave, I don't think he's trolling. Fair enough - bad choice or words. I blame my non-native English. > We're seeing a bunch of proposals for things to do on this > list and that's great - keep 'em coming; write I-Ds, we can > figure out how to handle 'em etc. That's all good. > > But, where I think Dave is right is that we don't have an > overview, so its possible that some effort we devote here could > be wasted if we miss something important. I'd rather miss something than spend days talking about things like "what is identity" or "what is privacy". > > So, while I definitely do not want to see us go into an > analytic paralysis, I do think some higher level consideration > would be good in addition to the specific proposals we need > to get. Agree. > >> I hope and suspect some folks are busy working on problem statement >> drafts already... > Great! If folks are doing that, I'd appreciate a heads-up > offlist, just so's we have a chance to avoid some duplication. > That's not required though - work away quietly if you prefer > until you're ready. > > S. > >
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