Introduction
We assessed and updated the privacy aspects of the statistics
production system in spring 2018.
For various good reasons the IETF process for making submissions
is open and all information, including author's information is
publicly available. The statistics tools use this information.
In the most recent version of the statistics tools, the
statistics are based only on documents submitted to the IETF, and
there is no per-person data held by the system beyond that. The
system does, however, keep a record of information that individuals
wanted to correct in their own data, on their own request. The
system also has some information on names that appear to refer to
the same person but are written in different ways (J. Smith vs. John
Smith).
The system also has some information on other entities than
persons, e.g., it recognises commonly appearing contributor
affiliations, and stores information about where those companies are
based in. This information is publicly known, e.g., listed on
relevent company websites.
The system also uses publicly available IETF web site information
about WGs, areas, chairs, ADs, IAB members, etc.
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Policy and Commitment
These tools strive to make transparent what is happening at the
IETF, where do contributions come from, in terms of companies,
countriers, continents, or who are most productive authors of
RFCs. There is legitimate community interesting in having such
statistics available.
We try to provide this service based on information available
in public sources, such as the IETF contributions themselves.
Should there be any concern about any information relating to a
particular document author in these statistics, we provide an
opportunity to send corrections or even remove data concerning a
particular author on request, or provide any other type of
feedback. Email jari.arkko(at)piuha.net.takeaway to contact the
developer. Please use a subject line that includes the word
authorstats.
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