4.1.1.5 Confidentiality Statements and Copyright
Notices on Communications
The IEEE-SA Standards Board and its committees operate in an open manner.
To that end, no material submitted to the IEEE-SA Standards Board or its
committees will be accepted or considered if it contains any statement that
places any burden on the recipient(s) with respect to confidentiality or
copyright. Any communication, including electronic mail, containing language
with such restrictive wording will not be accepted or considered.
It should be noted that this policy does not apply to IEEE copyrighted
materials, such as draft standards. In the event that copyrighted materials
are to be incorporated in an IEEE standard, an acceptable copyright release or
assignment must be obtained from the copyright owner prior to approval of the
standard by the IEEE-SA Standards Board.
Regards,
--Paul
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 5:09
PM
Subject: stds-802-mobility: Claims of
Confideniality in E-Mail messages
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
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