[cooperation-wg] SMTP forwarding in the face of Data Protection Directive

On 19 May 2011, at 19:35, Alessandro Vesely wrote:

> It's ok for these terms, for the sake of this discussion.  In case we
> want to expand it, we'll have to give it a name and a specification.
> Further steps would be implementing it, testing, and find how to
> publish it as an RFC.

I think you may be too far ahead of everyone Alessandro. It's not  
clear to me that there is a problem here that needs fixing. So far, no  
DPA appears to be demanding action about this issue or even saying  
that more formal consent processes are needed for mailing lists. I'd  
be inclined to wait until WP29 comes forward with a clear problem  
statement and set of requirements. Doing protocol development without  
these foundations is unlikely to produce anything useful: ie the IETF  
comes up with a solution to a different problem from the one that the  
DPAs care about.

It would be nice if a DPA could come to this WG to talk about this  
issue. After all the WG exists to facilitate this sort of industry- 
government dialogue.