On 10/31/2013 9:15 AM, Scott Brim wrote:
IMHO you're at the wrong level, and the concept of privacy as used here is abstract enough to be universal. What varies among cultures is what's kept private, and how it is kept private - the instantiation of the concept.
Hmmm. That sounds suspiciously like the difference between mechanism and policy, with the requirement in the IETF to be one of defining mechanisms, while leaving policies for their application to others, outside of the IETF.
No wonder this limitation of scope is being criticized so vigorously -- one might even say religiously. After all, it's not as if we've used that distinction much in the past, or with any real success...
d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
