Re: nomcom and confidentiality

[Lucy Lynch <llynch at civil-tongue.net>]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Harald Alvestrand wrote:

> I think some of Laksminath's concern is valid.
> But I think the solution to the problem is simple:
>
> Make it publicly known who is on the technical staff that supports the 
> Nomcom, and make it clear that these people:
>
> 1) May learn Nomcom information as a side effect of their technical work to 
> support Nomcom
> 2) Have promised not to reveal that information to others, and have promised 
> not to take any other action based on that information (apart from fixing 
> technical problems)
>
> This is analogous to the role of an email postmaster: He *can* read any mail 
> on the system, if he really wants to, but we trust him to not *do* it - or, 
> if he has to during debugging, we trust him to "forget" what he's read.
>
> I trust that Henrik thought this was "so obvious it didn't need mentioning".

Completely sensible - and in the interest of elegance, I'd reduce
this personally to "I trust Henrik".

- Lucy

>                     Harald
>
>
> --On 7. november 2006 00:39 -0800 Lakshminath Dondeti 
> <ldondeti at qualcomm.com> wrote:
>
> > Fred,
> >
> > When I saw a non-nomcom member having access to what I thought was
> > nomcom-confidential, I was very concerned and now doubt the entire
> > process.  I was told that it is secure, but it has not been verified as
> > far as I can tell.  At this point, no offense to the tools team, I remain
> > unconvinced.
>
>
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