Good synthesis of the #IETF99 #hackathon

https://communities.cisco.com/community/developer/opensource/blog/2017/07/23/running-code-is-king-at-ietf-99-in-prague

If you want to keep your head cool about the hype on "Post-Quantum Cryptography", do not miss Kenny Paterson's slides for his talk at #IETF99 https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99/slides/slides-99-saag-post-quantum-cryptography-01.pdf

Usual discussion: is measuring #censorship a way to help censorship? #451 #IETF99

The code from the #IETF99 hackathon on #censorship https://github.com/451hackathon

Also, a #Wordpress plugin allowing the webmaster to block content of his/her Web site per country, returning 451. #IETF99

Results of the #IETF99 hackathon for the Human Rights Protocol Considerations group: tools to track and detect HTTP #censorship using return code 451.

Now, Andrew Sullivan for the draft about "Politics of [Internet] standards" Are protocols political? #HumanRights #IETF99

Perez de Acha making the difference between "free association" on the Internet (mailing lists, peer to peer) and "forced association" (dDoS, being forced to go through an ISP). #HumanRights #IETF99

Gisela Perez de Acha now talking about the draft on freedom of association. Specially documenting forms of protest / assembly for the Internet. (#dDoS attacks not being acceptable.) #HumanRights #IETF99

The draft on #anonymity saw no progress. #HumanRights #IETF99

Also, it is very difficult to predict human rights impact at the moment of [protocol / system] design. Things do not go the way you think (specially when people actively try to "subvert" or hack them). #IETF99

@LienRag Oui, justement, Milton Mueller est en train de critiquer @bayartb en expliquant que la liberté de l'Internet (ou de la presse à imprimer) ne venait pas de ses caractéristiques propres, mais d'un retard historique : l'État ne savait pas comment contrôler ces nouvelles technologies. #IETF99

And even if "code is law", law can make code (all the anti-Internet surveillance / intellectual property laws). #IETF99

Now, the critique. 1) the Internet is already designed, we cannot change it in depth. 2) human rights can be in conflict with each other (privacy vs. accountability, which is required to protect people from aggression, or freedom of speech vs. protection against libel) #IETF99

Extreme version of that is of course the "code is law" claim. He who makes the design make the rules. #IETF99

First, the straw man :-) Mueller explains the "technical protocols may and should enable/help human rights" position (the one from HRPC documents). #IETF99

Milton Mueller (author of "Ruling the root") on stage "Requiem for a dream: on advancing human rights via Internet architecture". #IETF99

"Good morning, brave people of friday morning" #IETF99

Start of the Human Rights meeting at #IETF99 https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99/agenda/agenda-99-hrpc-01.txt