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
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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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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