Re: [hrpc] I-D Action: draft-irtf-hrpc-political-03.txt

[Vittorio Bertola <[e-mail]>]

On 12/07/2019 17:46, Stephen Farrell wrote:

> On 12/07/2019 16:41, Eliot Lear wrote:
> > I think you need to support this statement based on my previous
> > message.  That is- if one has an inability to effectively participate
> > in the setting of defacto standards that impact one’s own society,
> > isn’t one disenfranchised from protecting against whatever human
> > rights impacts our work has?  Or is that in itself not a human right,
> > and merely some form of privilege?
> 
> I do not consider participation in the IETF, not attendance
> at IETF meetings, a human right, no.

This is the second point I made in my earlier message, but I think that the key one is the first, which is slightly different: if having an Internet (and the society/economy that it promotes) that respects everyone's human rights is necessary for those human rights to be fulfilled, and if the technical decisions made at the IETF (i.e. protocol specs) influence the socioeconomic direction of the Internet, and if the internal diversity of participants influences the technical decisions made at the IETF, then ensuring appropriate diversity among IETF participants (and thus, appropriate participation opportunities) is necessary to ensure that the Internet generates a society in which human rights are respected. It is a long chain of ifs, but I find it reasonable at least as a research item to explore.

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