Freedom of Association on the Internet
draft-tenoever-hrpc-association-04
Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group N. ten Oever
Internet-Draft University of Amsterdam
Intended status: Informational G. Perez de Acha
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March 20, 2018
Freedom of Association on the Internet
draft-tenoever-hrpc-association-04
Abstract
This document scopes the relation between Internet protocols and the
right to freedom of assembly and association. Increasingly, the
Internet mediates our lives, our relationships and our ability to
exercise our human rights. The Internet provides a global public
space, but one that is built predominantly on private infrastructure.
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 any adverse
impacts of this relation should be mitigated.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Vocabulary used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Research questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Literature Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. Cases and examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.1. Conversing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.1.1. Mailing Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.1.2. Multi-party video conferencing and risks . . . . . . 8
6.1.3. Internet Relay Chat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.2. Peer-to-peer networks and systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.2.1. Peer-to-peer system achitectures . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.2.2. Version control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.3. Grouping together (identities) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.3.1. DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.3.2. ASes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7. Discussion: Protocols vs Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
8. Discussion: The Internet as an association . . . . . . . . . 14
9. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
11. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
12. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
13. Research Group Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
14. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
14.1. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
14.2. URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1. Introduction
"We shape our tools and, thereafter, our tools shape us." 
-- John Culkin (1967)
The Internet is a technology which shapes modern information
societies. The ordering that the Internet provides is socio-
technical, in other words, the Internet infrastructure and
architecture consists of social and technological arrangements
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