[hrpc] re research on HR history in IETF
Sandra Braman <braman@tamu.edu> Fri, 07 May 2021 05:27 UTC
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Date: Fri, 07 May 2021 00:26:55 -0500
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Subject: [hrpc] re research on HR history in IETF
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Thanks to everyone for the research recommendations and points of information. Several different types of possible effects have been mentioned: - on the design of the Internet - on those involved in design of the Internet (in a consciousness-raising kind of way) - on formal discourse about Internet design (in RFCs) - on public but informal discourse about Internet design (on mailing lists, etc.) - on the human rights discourse external to the IETF - on human rights (e.g., via the case studies) There are others that might be considered (e.g., effects on those involved in working on human rights and Internet design). The fascinating insight from Corinne Cath's dissertation, for which we are all waiting, about the gap between what is said publicly and what is actually believed for at least some involved in the Internet design process is important when thinking across this range of possible effects. Of course discussion about human rights in the course of the Internet design process is not new -- it was already a feature of the RFCs by the early 1970s. ("The Eternal Return" is one option for a title for a journal article that is close to completion.) Some of those who have contacted me privately expressing an interest in future publications coming out of work on uses of 8280 and related matters have also been interested in work published to date, so the 8 journal articles already out there have been bundled together in this folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zb-m37gnG6711ymwMv7s1xcoMC92SrP3?usp=sharing Of these items, "The Framing Years" is probably the best place to start though it wasn't the first published. The piece on "The Geopolitical vs the Network Political" adds a useful dimension to the jurisdictional matters this list has been discussing, etc. The RFCs turned out to be much more fecund from the perspective of discussion of legal, policy, and political matters in the course of technical decision-making than had been projected when I began the analysis of the first 40 years of the process that yielded these items (and others to come). However, I now agree with David D. Clark, with whom the project has been discussed since before its inception, that after the first 20 years, analysis of the RFCs themselves is less fruitful than it was in the early years except for those items that are explicitly on point. Unfortunately (in terms of the time it takes), because the subjects of analysis and the terminology used to discuss those subjects are constantly changing, inductive analysis based on full reading of the texts is necessary for this kind of work. The suggestion to map stages of the conversation as it moves across layers of the Internet was particularly striking and I hope someone takes up that work. The full panoply of suggestions for research on the effects of 8280 in particular and of the HRPC in general could come together in a great project for someone's dissertation, as well. My current commitment is to the couple of pieces that were offered as possible input into the draft guidelines now under discussion; as in other work, the approach is theoretically pluralist. Among the interesting theoretical problems to plumb for this sociotechnical domain is the tension between the definition of "normative" on the technical side (for the IETF, very specific things that are required in order for the technical system to work) and on the social side (abstract commitments expressed verbally about general principles preferred by some). It was sweet of Niels to offer a draft title for a draft I-D in this area, but I will not be the person writing that draft. However, this conversation has been extremely valuable for other purposes and again I thank you all for it. Sandra Braman
- [hrpc] re research on HR history in IETF Sandra Braman