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["Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 17:31:48 -0600, Jonah Aragon <jonah AT triplebit.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Google and myself don't know what 'Analog' is.
> 

Analog Stats, it runs on the host like you said Piwik did.

> Why would we do this
> 
> 
> As I mentioned, "It's for insight into who visits our community and where
> they come from mainly." Also, as Amunak mentioned, data like this can be
> helpful for resolving technical issues with our services, and developing
> new features, etc.
> 

How would collecting personally identifiable information on anonymous 
visitors to the Web site affect the OpenNIC DNS servers and use of them?

> Some
> additional data will be available to certain individuals which would
> include the anonymized IP addresses and some browser information. Those
> individuals would likely just be the maintainers of our various web
> services: I'm guessing Fusl, Shdwdrgn (Jeff Taylor), and myself. But anyone
> who reasonably requires additional information could be granted access as
> well.
> 

Yeah, of course, once again you come up with something that benefits you. 
Well at least the rest of the "OpenNIC elite" would directly benefit this 
time.

> who does it benefit
> 
> It benefits the website administrators and maintainers in a technical
> sense. But really it benefits the entire community organizationally:
> 

If this is truly transparent according to OpenNIC's mission then raw dumps 
would be available to anyone on request, and there would be monthly or 
biweekly postings of the "anonymized" data to the mailing list, for everyone.

Also, another issue to bring up, we would need an attorney to draft up the 
privacy policy. Who pays for that? You? Fusl? Jeff?