Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations
draft-irtf-hrpc-guidelines-03
Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research GroupN. ten Oever (editor)
Internet-Draft University of Amsterdam
Updates: 8280 (if approved) G. Grover (editor)
Intended status: Informational Centre for Internet and Society
Expires: December 9, 2019 June 07, 2019
Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations
draft-irtf-hrpc-guidelines-03
Abstract
This document sets guidelines for human rights considerations in
networking protocols, 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Vocabulary used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Guidelines for developing human rights protocol
considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1. Human rights threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.2. Conducting human rights reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2.1. Analyzing drafts based on guidelines for human rights
considerations model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2.2. Analyzing drafts based on their perceived or
speculated impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2.3. Expert interviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2.4. Interviews with impacted persons and communities . . 6
3.2.5. Tracing impacts of implementations . . . . . . . . . 6
3.3. Guidelines for human rights considerations . . . . . . . 6
3.3.1. Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3.2. Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3.3. Content agnosticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3.4. Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3.5. Internationalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3.6. Censorship resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3.7. Open Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.3.8. Heterogeneity Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.3.9. Pseudonymity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.3.10. Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.3.11. Localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.3.12. Decentralization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.3.13. Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.3.14. Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.3.15. Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.3.16. Authenticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.3.17. Adaptability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.3.18. Outcome Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.3.19. Anonymity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4. Document Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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