This submission raises an interesting question for the IETF: how to
treat anonymous (or pseudonymous) submissions?
On one hand, there are lots of classic reasons for hiding behind a
pseudonym when participating in public discussions. On the other hand,
the IETF has to be protected against intellectual property issues and
against sabotage by external groups.
Before submissions are accepted for publication, their authors have to
disclose whether they, or their employer, own intellectual property
rights on the technologies described in the draft. Failure to disclose
would influence the prosecution of intellectual property disputes that
might arise when third parties implement the technology. This provides
some degree of protection to implementers. But when the submission
cannot be traced to a specific company, these protections disappear, and
we might have a problem. So this is one source of tension between
standards and anonymity.
The other source of tension is the risk of sabotage. Various groups have
tried to sabotage the standard process in the past, for example to delay
the deployment of encryption, or to introduce exploitable bugs in
security standards -- some of these tactics were exposed in the Snowden
revelations. Anonymous participation could allow these groups to perform
such sabotage in untraceable ways, which is obviously not desirable.
I think this issue of anonymous participation is worth discussing.
-- Christian Huitema
On 4/17/2022 11:35 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Dear all,
I'm quite new at creating RFCs. I have recently submitted a draft for
a new webiquette and I am still searching a group which will take care
of it. It would fit into privacy as this new webiquette is dealing
with new internet technology such as deepfakes, sharing photos of 3rd
parties and so on and also deleting old information on a regular basis
good behavior. It's also quite short with only 9 pages and also covers
cancel culture and mobbing. I think a document like this is needed and
important. Anyone here who'd like to take care or helping me making an
RFC out of it? Or guide me in the right direction?
The draft can be found here:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rfcxml-general-the-new-webiquette-00.txt
Best Regards,
Kate
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