Doing human rights right at the internet infrastructure level. Wow.

Read about this for quite sometime, the works by IETF and friends, but mostly from ones that related to HTTP/2 development. Today I’m learning more on these efforts (and beyond) during APC Member Meeting 2017. Thanks to Avri Doria.

• RFC 6973 – Privacy Considerations for Internet Protocols
• RFC 7624 – Confidentiality in the Face of Pervasive Surveillance: A Threat Model and Problem Statement
• RFC 7626 – DNS Privacy Considerations
• RFC 7696 (BCP 201) – Guidelines for Cryptographic Algorithm Agility and Selecting Mandatory-to-Implement Algorithms
• RFC 7721 – Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms
• RFC 7819 – Privacy Considerations for DHCP
• RFC 8065 – Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Adaptation-Layer Mechanisms

Find out more RFC (request for comment) documents at Internet Architecture Board – Privacy and Security Program.

More explanations on human rights and internet engineering standards here:

• The Privacy is in the Protocol: Why Civil Society Needs to Pay Attention to the IETF by Mallory Knodel
• Engineering and lawyering privacy by design: understanding online privacy both as a technical and an international human rights issue by Adamantia Rachovitsa.

Also these initiatives:

• Human Rights Protocol Considerations [hrpc.io] [IETF Datatracker]
• Internet-Draft – Freedom of Association on the Internet
• W3C Privacy

(photo by thierry ehrmann. Creative Commons Attribution License)