Stéphane BortzmeyerJul 21, 2017
Good morning, Prague! Fifth and last day of #IETF99. For me, today, HRPC (Human Rights and Protocol Considerations) https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/99/agenda.html
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Start of the Human Rights meeting at #IETF99 https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99/agenda/agenda-99-hrpc-01.txt
Jul 21, 2017 at 7:28amWeb
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"Good morning, brave people of friday morning" #IETF99
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Milton Mueller (author of "Ruling the root") on stage "Requiem for a dream: on advancing human rights via Internet architecture". #IETF99
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@maliciarogue He starts by saying that human rights come from political processes, not technical tools. #IETF99
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First, the straw man :-) Mueller explains the "technical protocols may and should enable/help human rights" position (the one from HRPC documents). #IETF99
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Extreme version of that is of course the "code is law" claim. He who makes the design make the rules. #IETF99
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Now, the critique. 1) the Internet is already designed, we cannot change it in depth. 2) human rights can be in conflict with each other (privacy vs. accountability, which is required to protect people from aggression, or freedom of speech vs. protection against libel) #IETF99
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And even if "code is law", law can make code (all the anti-Internet surveillance / intellectual property laws). #IETF99
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Also, it is very difficult to predict human rights impact at the moment of [protocol / system] design. Things do not go the way you think (specially when people actively try to "subvert" or hack them). #IETF99
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The draft on #anonymity saw no progress. #HumanRights #IETF99
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Gisela Perez de Acha now talking about the draft on freedom of association. Specially documenting forms of protest / assembly for the Internet. (#dDoS attacks not being acceptable.) #HumanRights #IETF99
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Perez de Acha making the difference between "free association" on the Internet (mailing lists, peer to peer) and "forced association" (dDoS, being forced to go through an ISP). #HumanRights #IETF99
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Now, Andrew Sullivan for the draft about "Politics of [Internet] standards" Are protocols political? #HumanRights #IETF99
Show threadMarcin CieślakJul 21, 2017
@bortzmeyer Not being there: the answer is "yes".
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@saper https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tenoever-hrpc-political/
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Results of the #IETF99 hackathon for the Human Rights Protocol Considerations group: tools to track and detect HTTP #censorship using return code 451.
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Also, a #Wordpress plugin allowing the webmaster to block content of his/her Web site per country, returning 451. #IETF99
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The code from the #IETF99 hackathon on #censorship https://github.com/451hackathon
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Usual discussion: is measuring #censorship a way to help censorship? #451 #IETF99