Hi Scott, On 10/16/2017 06:18 PM, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: regext [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niels ten Oever >> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 12:04 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [regext] I-D Action: draft-ietf-regext- >> verificationcode-02.txt >> >> Dear working group, >> >> I remain very concerned about the potential negative impact of this draft >> on the right to freedom of association, the right to privacy and the right >> to freedom of expression. >> >> Even though this was now brought up several times the author does not seem >> to want to explicitly address this, which I think is problematic. > > Niels, I am not the author (we are co-workers), but you and I were exchanging > email on this topic back in April. I never did receive a reply from you for > the last message I sent requesting clarification on the points above: > > https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/regext/current/msg00677.html >
In that email I was not arguing that acquiring a domain is a fundamental right. I would argue though that having a domain facilitates freedom of expression, access to information and the right to association. The VSP enables the verification of a specific domain to a specific identity, which is not necessary to run the domain or facilitate the billing for the registrar, but it does have a potential very big impact on the right to privacy, freedom of expression, and freedom of association of the registrant. This makes standardizing this in my opinion a disproportionate risk to human rights. That not all domains are available for everyone is clear, and there can be good reasons for that (the ccTLD example can makes sense). But in order to do that, no VSP was needed. So I am specifically objecting again the use of a verification provider, and Internet protocols facilitating the standardization of VSPs. Subsequently you asked about the different between human rights consideration and privacy considerations. Privacy Considerations are outlined here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6973 Human Rights Considerations are outlined here (whereas you are correct that Privacy Considerations can be part of Human Rights Considerations): https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-hrpc-research Best, Niels > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > regext mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/regext > -- Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9 _______________________________________________ regext mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/regext
