The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Effect of Pervasive Encryption on Operators' <draft-mm-wg-effect-encrypt-13.txt> as Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2017-12-04. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract Pervasive Monitoring (PM) attacks on the privacy of Internet users is of serious concern to both the user and the operator communities. RFC7258 discussed the critical need to protect users' privacy when developing IETF specifications and also recognized making networks unmanageable to mitigate PM is not an acceptable outcome, an appropriate balance is needed. This document discusses current security and network management practices that may be impacted by the shift to increased use of encryption to help guide protocol development in support of manageable, secure networks. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mm-wg-effect-encrypt/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mm-wg-effect-encrypt/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
