* Anthony Towns [Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:03:39 +1000]:
Hi,
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:10:37PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > If, on the other hand (but this may be better the scope of another GR?
> > I'm not sure, just mention if you think it is), this proposal is
> > accompanied by a change in -privacy policy from now on, namely "posts
> > will be declassified after three years unless there is a note in the
> > message disapproving it", the process could become much more
> > straightforward three years after the GR passes.
[Swapping the order of your paragraphs.]
> I'm not really seeing how much more straightforward that makes it anyway?
Currently, the team will have to select posts, and then for each of
them, contact the author and wait between 4 and 8 weeks. There may be
a few posts that include "I'm ok with this being made public", for
which no contact will be necessary. And posts which receive no comment
will be published at the team's discretion.
With the change, the team selects the posts, and can publish them
without having to contact their authors, unless a "do not declassify
this post" note is present. For these (a certain percentage, X), the
team would need to contact the authors if they consider that the post
should be published and want them to change their mind. The difference
would be that with no reply, it can't be published (with Manoj's
amendment; otherwise the team would decide whether to overrule the
author).
That for the objetive explanation. The interesting question is, what
would that percentage X be? And more importantly, what percentage of
that X will be posts that the declassification team would consider as
necessary to publish? IOW, would the "do not publish this" notes be
abused, or would be they used only for reasonable stuff?
Also, though it may seem by the above that this is about making the
job of the team easier, it's really about changing private from
"everything is private unless stated otherwise" to the opposite. Hence
my initial comment about whether it fits the scope of this GR or not
(as Daniel mentions in another posts as well). How do we want private
to be?
> Hrm, I would've thought the opportunity to change your mind later would
> still be relevant though (in the "actually, on reflection, that's fine,
> make it public" or "ooops, I should've said not to release that"),
(Seems to me that changing one's mind can happen any time until the
post is declassified, or even later if it is not after three years?)
Cheers,
--
Adeodato Simó
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