Re: W3C/IAB workshop on Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)

[Scott Brim <[e-mail]>]

It was a response to the RTM Worm.


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 16 Jan 2014, at 17:58, Hector Santos <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> > The IETF has the ethics document RFC1087
>
> Whoa.
>
> — this is an IAB document, not an IETF document
> — it’s status is UNKNOWN
> — if it had been assigned a more specific status, that would be HISTORIC
> — it subject was about proper allocation of public resources for
> work-related activities:
>
> "there is widespread dependence on the Internet
> by its users for the support of day-to-day research activities.”
>
> "The U.S. Government sponsors of this system have a fiduciary
> responsibility to the public to allocate government resources wisely
> and effectively."
>
> etc.
>
> This is from a time where large parts of every-day human reality hadn’t
> moved into the digital domain (and thus into the Internet) yet.  In 1989,
> nobody would have thought about making the point that the integrity of the
> digital facets of your personality is the subject of a basic human right.
>  We are way beyond any question about that.
>
> Grüße, Carsten
>
>