#InternetGovernance #InternetProtocols #HumanRights #Decentralization #AntiCensorship #DataProtection: "The Internet Research Task Force has published a Request For Comments document its authors hope will mean developers of comms protocols and architec...
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#InternetGovernance #InternetProtocols #HumanRights #Decentralization #AntiCensorship #DataProtection: "The Internet Research Task Force has published a Request For Comments document its authors hope will mean developers of comms protocols and architectures consider the human rights implications of their efforts.
RFC 9620 – titled "Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations" – is merely informational. It's not a standard, nor is it on track to become one.
It "outlines a set of human rights protocol considerations for protocol developers" and "provides questions that engineers should ask themselves when developing or improving protocols if they want to understand how their decisions can potentially influence the exercise of human rights on the internet."
The document explains the need for its existence as follows:"
New RFC prods protocol devs to consider human rights
Something tells us Vlad and Xi probably won't bother reading it
(www.theregister.com)
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"This document outlines a set of human rights protocol considerations for protocol developers. It provides questions that engineers should ask themselves when developing or improving protocols if they want to understand how their decisions can potentially influence the exercise of human rights on the Internet. It should be noted that the impact of a protocol cannot solely be deduced from its design, but its usage and implementation should also be studied to form a full human rights impact assessment.
The questions are based on the research performed by the Human Rights Protocol Considerations (HRPC) Research Group, which has been documented before these considerations. The research establishes that human rights relate to standards and protocols and offers a common vocabulary of technical concepts that influence human rights and how these technical concepts can be combined to ensure that the Internet remains an enabling environment for human rights. With this, the contours of a model for developing human rights protocol considerations has taken shape." https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9620