Re: COVID-19 contacts tracker (Re: a brief pondering)

["Eric Vyncke (evyncke)" <[e-mail]>]

Bob and Benoît,

I agree for a long-term plan (but also for a short-term action like Hackathon and leveraging some IETF technologies to DISTRIBUTE -- no centralization -- of private info).

The DRIP WG (Drone Remote ID Protocol) has related use cases and technologies (also using Bluetooth BTW)

-éric

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf <[e-mail]> on behalf of Bob Hinden <[e-mail]>
Date: Wednesday, 15 April 2020 at 20:31
To: John Wroclawski <[e-mail]>, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>
Cc: Bob Hinden <[e-mail]>, IETF <[e-mail]>, Keith Moore <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: COVID-19 contacts tracker (Re: a brief pondering)

    John, Carsten,
    
    > On Apr 15, 2020, at 10:13 AM, John Wroclawski <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > 
    > ….
    > 
    > I think the existence of these things, and the speed they’re moving at, pretty much validates Carsten’s observation that:
    > 
    >> On Apr 15, 2020, at 12:25 PM, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
    >> (1) We are not fast enough.  (Some of us are, but as an organization we aren’t.)
    > 
    
    
    Yes, but I think it’s a mistake to think that this is a one time thing and that it will be done anytime soon.   We shouldn’t get in the way of what MIT/Google/Apple/etc. are doing in the short term, but I do think there is long term value developing something in the IETF that will prepare for the long term.   That has a reasonable balance between tracking for medical vs. political tracking.
    
    Until there is a vaccine this will reoccur, and other pandemics will happen.
    
    Bob