[COLUG] Requesting Comments

[Duane]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 08:21 -0400, William Yang wrote:

> 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?

This information alone is quite meaningless, as it provides no
additional information beyond a bitmasked number.

>  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.

The record can be absent as well, by simply not adding a DNC preference,
although the website currently lacks the ability to remove a record, it
could easily be added. All information is returned via DNS queries.

> 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.

Legislation is of course the stick to whack people with, but thanks for
the additional suggestions, someone else suggested using data:63 instead
of DNC:63 since this is already a defined type, and someone else
suggested adding a bit to the mask to determine if they accept calls
without CID or not (mind you CID is abused, especially in the US, so not
sure how much faith I really put in such systems)...

I've updated the wiki based on current suggestions.

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  Duane

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