From the completed-a-few-weeks-ago file: The NTIA requested comments on substantive consumer data privacy issues that warrant the development of legally enforceable codes of conduct, as well as procedures to foster the development of these codes. Having some experience with using and developing open community processes, and having worked with Mozilla's legal team on standards licensing analyses, they asked me and a few more Mozilla community members to help collaboratively write a response to the NTIA RFC.

Numerous organizations and individuals responded to the RFC. Only two in that list explicitly noted URLs to their comments on the web: W3C and Mozilla.

W3C's comments are posted at a year-month permalink and contain a number of good recommendations including using permanently archived public mailing lists, real-time chat (via Internet Relay Chat or similar), and preferring technologies and document formats based on open standards (like HTML).

Mozilla's comments were posted not just on the web, but on an open wiki page. Mozilla's comments have several common themes throughout that I was particularly happy to help emphasize for this discussion: e.g. full openness/transparency and public posting of archives/messages on the web, preferably on an open wiki. With such a recommendation it only made sense to submit the comments themselves on an open wiki page, including a self-reference citation in the content to help the URL to the wiki survive any format transitions (e.g. PDF, printouts).

If you're interested in privacy codes of conduct, e.g. for mobile application development (like address book privacy), take a look at Mozilla's thoughts, and blog your own thoughts about how we can all work together to improve awareness of and best practices for user-respectful behavior regarding privacy and personal data.