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| --- This message came from the IEEE 802.11 Working Group Reflector ---
Dear 802.11 members, This is a gentle reminder that members are not allowed to include confidentiality notices in any email sent to an IEEE 802.11 reflector. This is an IEEE-SA rule. If your employer adds such a notice, it is your responsibility to get this turned off, or use a personal account. If I notice any such emails, I will warn the offender. Any subsequent posting with a confidentiality notice will result in the offender being removed from one or more 802.11 reflectors. A reminder that any email sent to any 802.11 reflector is publicly accessible through a browser interface. Excerpt from http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/Reflector.html: Policy related to Confidentiality Notices
Many companies have a policy of putting Internet E-mail Confidentiality Disclaimers at the end of their emails. This is not allowed under IEEE rules of openness.
The 802.11 chair will remove your participation in a reflector if your emails contain the statement. If you are affected by corporate disclaimers, you can set up an external email account
under your control. Email the vice chair to do a global change of address. Below is an extract from the IEEE 802 Chair on this subject which details the policy. 802 Policy regarding restrictive notices
IEEE 802 operates in an open manner. To that end, no material submitted to IEEE 802, or any of its sub-groups, will be accepted or considered if that material
contains any statement that places any burden on the recipient(s) with respect to confidentiality or copyright. This policy specifically includes e-mail.
Any material that has such a "Confidentiality Disclaimer" on it is not acceptable. The purpose of such a disclaimer is to transfer some level of responsibility
to the recipient for deciding whether or not it is appropriate to disclose, use, disseminate, copy, post or otherwise distribute, the material. IEEE 802 accepts no such responsibility. The most effective way for 802 to decline any such responsibility is to not accept material with such a disclaimer. Correspondence with 802 groups will not be confidential. It is very likely that any such correspondence (in addition to being discussed in open meetings) will
be posted in the open portion of our web-site and thus will be disclosed, disseminated and distributed. Anyone who wishes to correspond with an 802 group must understand and accept this as a condition of sending us any documentation. Inclusion of any restrictive
notice is contrary to, and negates, any indication of acceptance of the IEEE 802 policy of openness. … Best Regards, Adrian P STEPHENS Tel: +44 1954 204 609 (office) ---------------------------------------------- If you wish to be removed from this reflector, do not send your request to this reflector - it will have no effect. Instead, go to http://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=STDS-802-11 and then press the LEAVE button. If there is no LEAVE button here, try http://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=STDS-802-11-RO. Further information can be found at: http://www.ieee802.org/11/Email_Subscribe.html _______________________________________________________________________________ |