On 3/14/2015 2:27 AM, Tim Bray wrote: > This draft is trying to make general points that are orthogonal to any > particular technology, including: > > - Positive & negative privacy failures are asymmetrically harmful > - the right choices are hard to make, so just don't ask inexpert uses to > make them, > - the cost of privacy technologies is monotonically falling
+1 to the nature and direction of this document. Especially for topics that are complex, poorly understood and/or are controversial, it can greatly help to discuss issues and tradeoffs in higher-level, non-technical terms. I usually cast this as needing statement about functional benefits and detriments for users (end-users, operators, etc.) The summary bullets Tim provided, above, are worth adding to the document early, with the rest of document providing substance to them. If there is enough community difficulty in readily seeing the nature and benefit of this exercise -- I usually assume that when any one reasonable reader has that sort of problem, others will too -- we should probably find an example to add that distinguishes between this level of discussion and the lower-level type that IETF work typical deals with -- and that ought to derive from these higher-level points. There might be an line of discussion to add to the document, namely tradeoffs and limitations of various technical approaches, especially popular ones. For example, transport-level encryption has notable benefits, but the deficiencies seem to be absent from most IETF discussions, leaving very large holes in the creator/consumer path. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
