Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:46:55 +1000, Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> said:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:10:11PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> b) I do not want to be associated with the post in question
>> In other words, if this showed up in google it may hurt my future
>> job prospects post ;-). In this case, the post can be published,
>> just every identifying bit about the author needs be redacted from
>> this post and the quotes.
> That's an interesting point, though it's mitigated by the problem
> that removing identifying information means you need to remove more
> than just the From: and gpg signature -- I mean a "Cheers,\n=="
> would nominally have identifying info redacted, but a pretty clear
> giveaway, and even without anything so obvious, there are fairly
> impressive ways of matching an author to a post just by analysing
> their writing styles these days.
But these do not show up in a google search by a prospective
future employer. I do not want to make the perfect an enemy of the
good. In cases like these, perfect solutions are often intractable,
but that should not preclude good solutions from being considered.
> Certainly the delegates should be allowed to do the above, and if
> there are posts that someone doesn't mind publishing with a few
> identifying remarks removed it's a good compromise, but I just think
> specifying it now is overthinking the problem, which we should do
> later when we've seen how it actually works in practice.
>> - - requests by the author of a post for that post not to be
>> published
>> - will be honoured;
>> + - If the author makes a resonable case that some material is
>> + sensitive, then that material is redacted from that post and any
>> + other post where it has been quoted
>> +
>> + - If the author indicates he does not wish to be associated with
>> a
>> + post, any identifying information is redacted from that post,
>> + and any quotes in subsequent posts, but the rest of the material
>> + is published.
> Removing the quoted material from follow on posts isn't a problem,
> as long as the "Foo said" stuff is anonymised. But if the text later
> says "Yeah, that's great, but you said the opposite in <link to
> message on
-devel> ", they're identified anyway.
>> I Think the proposal above still allows the opportunity for the
>> delegates to make good decisions, while providing them some firmer
>> guidelines in some of the common use cases.
> I think it's a good idea to think through these things now, and pass
> them on to the delegates as guidelines when they're appointed, but
> putting them in the mandate just seems like overkill. If we're
> trusting the authors of -private posts to make good decisions on
> what can and can't be public, can't we trust the future delegates to
> make good decisions on what processes to follow and special cases to
> allow? (And if it turns out we can't, we can definitely overrule
> them)
Well. The reason I brought these up was that I considered my
own misgivings about declassification While I do not have specific
posts in mind, I have posted a lot in the 8 years or so we have
archives for, and these two use cases (sensitive meaterial, and not
wanting to be (easily) identified as author) are the two that stood
head and shoulders above the rest.
While I am not opposed to trusting the judgement of the
delegates, I would prefer to know, in braod terms, if the common
cases for wanting mateial not to be declassified would be handled
correctly, this would greatly increasse my willinglness to support
this GR unreservedly.
manoj
ps: also, given some of the recent shenanigans on -devel, I am not so
sure I totally trust the judgement of my fellow developers all the
time, even some delegates -- so a minimal guideline to the delegates
would make me rest a lot easier.
pps: Am working on putting the GR pages up on vote.d.o
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