Re: Call for a Jasmine Revolution in the IETF: Privacy, Integrity, Obscurity

[Hannes Tschofenig <[e-mail]>]

Hi Dean, 

you may want to look at the following two documents:

1) "The Role of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Improving Privacy on the Internet"
http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/papers/privacy-ws-32.pdf
by Jon Peterson, Neustar; Hannes Tschofenig, Nokia Siemens Networks; Bernard Aboba, Microsoft and Karen Sollins, MIT

2) "Privacy Considerations for Internet Protocols: Bringing Privacy to the IETF"
http://www.tschofenig.priv.at/svn/dagstuhl-privacy/ietf-privacy-overview.pdf
by Hannes Tschofenig, Bernard Aboba, Jon Peterson

These two documents contain several references, including pointers to 

* the recent IAB/W3C/ISOC/MIT workshop on Internet privacy:
http://www.iab.org/about/workshops/privacy/

* Privacy Considerations for Internet Protocols
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-morris-privacy-considerations-02

* Policy Considerations for Internet Protocols
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-morris-policy-cons-00

* Terminology for Talking about Privacy by Data Minimization: Anonymity, Unlinkability, Undetectability, Unobservability, Pseudonymity, and Identity Management
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hansen-privacy-terminology-01

When you read through these documents then you will find out that 
* "privacy" is a fairly complex topic, 
* privacy has been addressed in IETF protocols in various degrees, and 
* there is work ongoing to consider privacy in a more systematic way in the IETF. 

Ciao
Hannes