[COLUG] Requesting Comments

[William Yang]

Duane wrote:
> For a while now we've been publishing DNC (do not call) records in
> e164.org's zone, the idea is pretty simple, we already have a large
> number of phone records, why not tag them with who and how the person
> wants to be contacted.

Privacy question:  if you put that information, with your phone number, 
what can be deduced about you?  Is there a broad security risk associated 
with this?


> While we doubt the existing DNC lists will use our method, it's hoped
> that in future this will encourage DNC deployment (and enforcement) in
> other countries.
> 
> We've documented how we think such information could be used and are
> planning to move forward and write it out as an Internet Draft, but
> before we did that we're hoping to seek out opinions on what we have, or
> what we should try to do differently etc.
> 
> http://www.e164.org/wiki/DoNotCall

 From a standards perspective, you may want to add a bit for 'opt in' 
specifically, and have zero mean "no preference expressed" -- this 
distinguishes between people who are *asking* to be contacted, and people 
who don't know that such preferences can be specified.

I also think you need to probably include additional categories for things 
like 'charitable organizations' that are non-religious and non-political. 
Tele-research is another big category you've missed.  There are probably 
others I'm not catching.

 From a US perspective, I believe the proposed DNC list will be happily 
ignored for political, religious, and charitable organizations, since they 
don't appear to be subject to call restriction laws now and our political 
and religious freedoms prohibit limitations on many such activities.  In 
the telemarketing case, I think there's no chance of seeing broad adoption 
without legislation first.

	-Bill
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William Yang
wyang at gcfn.net