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All,
Some of you have been sending messages to the
various 802.20 reflectors with notes like the following appended to your
email:
"The information contained in this electronic mail
message is privileged
and confidential, and is intended only for use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by reply transmission and delete the message without copying or disclosing it." These statements have no place in IEEE 802
reflectors.
1) All of our email is posted on publicly accessible
websites. Therefore, the email will certainly not be restricted to the
"intended recipient".
2) It would be highly inappropriate to divulge any
confidential information on the reflector. In fact, any confidential
information should be formally turned down and denied a place in 802.20
proceedings and archives.
3) Our processes are open specifically to avoid any
appearances or practice of collusion and price fixing. Statements like the
above are counter-productive to maintaining both the fact and the appearance of
openness in our Standards Development process.
I realize that it may be a pain for some of you to get
your company to not automatically append such a notice on every email you send
out. However, you have an obligation in your work with IEEE 802 to neither
provide nor imply that you are providing confidential information.
Therefore,
1) Those of you that have sent messages with such a
statement, please send an email formally stating that the Confidential statement
that has appeared or may appear on your future notes is incorrect.
2) Please work with your company to find some way of
sending notes to the reflector without such clauses. If necessary, send
notes using a separate non-company email address, such as hotmail.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Robert D. Love
President, LAN Connect Consultants 7105 Leveret Circle Raleigh, NC 27615 Phone: 919 848-6773 Mobile: 919 810-7816 email: rdlove@ieee.org Fax: 208 978-1187 |