Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol Considerations
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Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research GroupN. ten Oever (editor)
Internet-Draft ARTICLE 19
Intended status: Informational March 20, 2018
Expires: September 21, 2018
Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol Considerations
draft-irtf-hrpc-guidelines-00
Abstract
This document proposes guidelines for human rights considerations,
similar to the work done on the guidelines for privacy considerations
[RFC6973]. This is an updated version of the guidelines for human
rights considerations in [RFC8280].
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Vocabulary used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Model for developing human rights protocol considerations . . 2
3.1. Human rights threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.2. Guidelines for human rights considerations . . . . . . . 4
3.2.1. Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2.2. Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2.3. Content agnosticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2.4. Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2.5. Internationalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2.6. Censorship resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2.7. Open Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2.8. Heterogeneity Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.2.9. Pseudonymity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.2.10. Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2.11. Localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2.12. Decentralization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.2.13. Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.2.14. Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.2.15. Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.2.16. Authenticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.2.17. Adaptability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.2.18. Outcome Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.2.19. Anonymity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4. Document Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8. Research Group Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
9.1. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
9.2. URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
1. Introduction
2. Vocabulary used
3. Model for developing human rights protocol considerations
This section outlines a set of human rights protocol considerations
for protocol developers. It provides questions engineers should ask
themselves when developing or improving protocols if they want to
understand their human rights impact. It should however be noted
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