-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [governance] Two IETF Internet-Drafts about human rights and censorship Resent-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:49:07 +0100 Resent-From: d004620@polito.it Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 14:47:59 +0100 From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@internatif.org> Reply-To: governance@lists.igcaucus.org, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@internatif.org> To: governance@lists.igcaucus.org Next week is the 91th IETF meeting and, at the security meeting, these two new Internet-Drafts will be discussed: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-doria-hrpc-proposal Work has been done on privacy issues that should be considered when creating an Internet protocol [see the excellent RFC 6973, or working groups like DPRIVE, for DNS privacy. S.B.]. This draft suggests that similar considerations may apply for other human rights such as freedom of expression or freedom of association. A proposal is made for initiating IRTF [Internet Research Task Force] work researching the possible connections between human rights and Internet standards and protocols. The goal would be to create an informational RFC concerning human rights protocol considerations. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hall-censorship-tech This document describes the technical mechanisms used by censorship regimes around the world to block or degrade internet traffic. It aims to make designers, implementers, and users of Internet protocols aware of the properties being exploited and mechanisms used to censor end-user access to information. This document makes no suggestions on individual protocol considerations, and is purely informational, intended to be a reference.