Re: [tlug] [slightly OT] SMTP and the internet, protocols and the internet

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 05:13:40PM +0900, Edward Middleton wrote:
> On 13/1/21 1:32 pm, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Christian Horn writes:
> 
> >   > > Maybe whoever enforces GDPR where you are can help.
> >   >
> >   > I think GDPR asked to get the data out of whois, from where it could
> >   > be easily gathered.  Just that with their idea of providing it via
> >   > website it could be even easier collected.
> > 
> > Yeah, I was mostly joking.  It just cracks me up when European
> > entities demand that you publish your PII where *anybody* can get it.
> 
> I wonder if that is covered by anything in the GDPR. ie. requiring access to
> personal information not required to operate the service to access it.

That must now you be joking, right? ;)

It is not, they would have told me directly.
I did directly comment "if you think requesting that data is le-
gitimate, can you please hint on RFCs or rules requiring that?
Or work with the community to get this into RFCs?  That would 
ensure this is not artificially setup by you but discussed and
accepted widely."
I got no comments on that, I think these are simply own rules.

Chris