Freedom of Association on the Internet
draft-tenoever-hrpc-association-02
Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group N. ten Oever
Internet-Draft ARTICLE 19
Intended status: Informational G. Perez de Acha
Expires: April 16, 2018 Derechos Digitales
October 13, 2017
Freedom of Association on the Internet
draft-tenoever-hrpc-association-02
Abstract
This document aims to scope the relation between Internet protocols
and the right to freedom of assembly and association. The Internet
increasingly mediates our lives and our ability to excercise human
rights. Since Internet protocols play a central role in the
management, development and use of the Internet, the relation between
protocols and the aforementioned rights should be documented and
adverse impacts should be mitigated. As there have been methods of
protest on the Internet -a form of freedom of assembly- that have
proven to be harmful to connectivity and infrastructure, such as DDoS
attacks, this text aims to document forms of protest, association and
assembly that do not have a negative impact on the Internet
infrastructure.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Vocabulary used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Research questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Literature Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. Cases and examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.1. Communicating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.1.1. Mailing Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.1.2. Multi-party video conferencing and risks . . . . . . 7
6.2. Peer-to-peer networks and systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.2.1. Peer-to-peer system achitectures . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.2.2. Version control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.3. Reaching out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.3.1. Spam, filter bubbles, and unrequested messaging . . . 11
6.3.2. Distributed Denial of Service Attacks . . . . . . . . 12
6.4. Grouping together (identities) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.4.1. DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.4.2. ASes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7. Discussion: The Internet as an association . . . . . . . . . 14
8. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
11. Research Group Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
12.1. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
12.2. URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1. Introduction
The right to freedom of assembly and association protects collective
expression, in turn, systems and protocols than enable communal
communication between people and servers allow these rights to
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