We welcomed two new participants: Jann Fong (sitting in for Lucia Tsai) and
Jacqueline Craig (AVCO). We had a long discussion of college basketball
arenas (Haas is still way better than Maples, but not as good as Harmon
was, and they're all better than the Mausoleum), and then started giving
Jacqueline and Jann some background on the discussions we've had so far.
(I'm getting tired of typing "Jacqueline", so she's "JC" from here out).
JC wanted to know if we are planning to pre-assign addresses to students
(Yes). firstname_lastname (or firstname.lastname, preferred by Jann) is in
conflict with the UC policy on privacy--having an obvious naming scheme is
equivalent to publishing someone's address. We don't have to auto-generate
addresses for people who have opted-out of displaying their address (Tom).
And we don't have to use firstname_lastname--in fact we were leaning away
from it anyway. Haas faculty hate using the shift key (Zane). Non-obvious
schemes, like th123, don't have the policy problem. This is probably the
last nail in the coffin of firstname_lastname.
CalNet will have a friendly-name option rolling out in February. Jann
will send us a document with some of the issues they dealt with in
deciding on their scheme. They are using personal choice with some
concessions to the uclink/socrates address space.
The undergrad division is looking at a way to send mail to incoming
students. JC suggested we contact Tim Heidinger and see if he is
interested in participating; I will do that.
If people can choose logins, we can't protect them from themselves (JC). If
someone wants hotbitch@Berkeley.EDU, it's theirs. On the other hand, if
someone wants to point hotbitch@Berkeley.EDU at JC's mailbox, they will be
squashed via the Electronic Communications Policy.
JC notes we may have to put forth multiple options that others can decide
on. Jack can't just say "we are doing this". Who decides? The ITAC,
perhaps. I think the ITAC is reasonably likely to endorse whatever
proposal we come up with--all the major players are represented on BEEF. We
should come up with a recommendation, and list some of the reasons we
discarded other options (Tom).
Our next meeting is 10:00 AM on Tuesday, December 11th, where we will
attempt to make decisions about some of the conflicting goals.
-- Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069) Director of Computing, College of Letters & Science 249 Campbell Hall
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