Hi Dean, you may want to look at the following two documents: 1) "The Role of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Improving Privacy on the Internet" http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/papers/privacy-ws-32.pdf by Jon Peterson, Neustar; Hannes Tschofenig, Nokia Siemens Networks; Bernard Aboba, Microsoft and Karen Sollins, MIT 2) "Privacy Considerations for Internet Protocols: Bringing Privacy to the IETF" http://www.tschofenig.priv.at/svn/dagstuhl-privacy/ietf-privacy-overview.pdf by Hannes Tschofenig, Bernard Aboba, Jon Peterson These two documents contain several references, including pointers to * the recent IAB/W3C/ISOC/MIT workshop on Internet privacy: http://www.iab.org/about/workshops/privacy/ * Privacy Considerations for Internet Protocols http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-morris-privacy-considerations-02 * Policy Considerations for Internet Protocols http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-morris-policy-cons-00 * Terminology for Talking about Privacy by Data Minimization: Anonymity, Unlinkability, Undetectability, Unobservability, Pseudonymity, and Identity Management http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hansen-privacy-terminology-01 When you read through these documents then you will find out that * "privacy" is a fairly complex topic, * privacy has been addressed in IETF protocols in various degrees, and * there is work ongoing to consider privacy in a more systematic way in the IETF. Ciao Hannes _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf