[hrpc] HRPC recharter

[Mallory Knodel <[e-mail]>]

Dear RG,

Hope everyone is well.

At the 115 meeting HRPC was reviewed by the IAB [0], notes of which are 
forthcoming from the IAB.

Partially as a result, though this activity predates the review itself, 
Sofia and I have been reviewing the HRPC charter. In particular we are 
keen to expand HRPC slightly, though arguably our area of work will 
remain the same (more on that later), to explicitly welcome policy 
discussions.

The recharter text is available in GitHub [1] where you can view a diff 
[2]. It is also in a plaintext format with more visual indications of 
where the changes have been made [3].

My view on the proposed change to include "policy" as a replacement for 
"protocol" in the name and charter text have been shaped by both of the 
past chairs of HRPC and Colin's feedback, which is that the human rights 
framework can apply to virtually any policy discussion and therefore 
HRPC has all along according to its charter had a mandate to talk about 
these issues. However I do think that the slight rephrasing in places 
gives us necessary updates that reflect the current political moment as 
well as learning from past lessons since the group was chartered the 
first time. Additionally I think there is value in the group name and 
its charter text being written so as to explicitly attract researchers 
and research that discuss policy, as a "place to land" in the IETF/IRTF.

We welcome any comments on the proposed changes.

Happy new year and best wishes to everyone,

-Chairs, Mallory & Sofia

[0] https://www.iab.org/wiki/index.php/RG_Reviews

[1] https://github.com/IRTF-HRPC/IRTF-HRPC/blob/main/hrpccharter.md

[2] 
https://github.com/IRTF-HRPC/IRTF-HRPC/commit/1a029b31ab3521e8da1490924c94397a99497d19

[3] https://pad.riseup.net/p/Qgq2TJuWLbFSY1Jrcxgm


-- 
Mallory Knodel
CTO, Center for Democracy and Technology
gpg fingerprint :: E3EB 63E0 65A3 B240 BCD9 B071 0C32 A271 BD3C C780