Re: DISCUSSION: archiving of NOMCOM information

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Robert and all,

  What your seem to be advocating here is manipulating historical
information in such a way as to be purposefully inaccurate?  Am
I reading you right here Robert?

Robert Elz wrote:

>     Date:        Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:49:03 -0800
>     From:        "todd glassey" <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>
>     Message-ID:  <008201c1cc41$516f1720$020aff0c@tsg1>
>
>   | OK say someone finally has it up to wherever they do and they file a lawsuit
>   | against the IETF or the NonCom or any of the other orgs that piggyback off
>   | of this "there will be no records kept" philosophy. What then?
>
> What then?
>
>   | My take is that the courts come in and find that
>   |
>   |     1) none of the organizations have any way of proving squat except
>   | through the verbal testimony of the people that will likely be named as
>   | co-defendants to the cause of action.
>
> So, nothing can be proven.   Big deal.  That happens lots of times.
> Nothing proven, nothing happens.
>
>   | So I have to ask "Why should we believe them?".
>
> No particular reason.   But on the other hand, why would you believe the
> person bringing the action?   They obviously feel aggrieved - they have
> just as much incentive to lie.   Or more likely, in both cases, to have
> a different view of what actually is the truth.
>
> But please note, I'm not suggesting that nothing be archived.   It's
> entirely reasonable to archive minutes of the meetings, summaries of
> comments made (I don't see any real point archiving the comments themselves
> without any attribution, that would simply be worthless, there's no way
> to check if the comment was actually made, or just inserted into the record
> to justify some decision), and such.   I just see no point keeping precise
> records of every confidential comment that is made.  In fact, that would
> probably be illegal in some bizarre circumstances - consider the possibility
> that a lawyer might get appointed to the nomcom someday, and someone makes
> what is a privileged legal communication to that lawyer...
>
> kre

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