Re: WG Review: IDentity Enabled Networks (ideas)

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On 2017-9-29, at 11:31, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As currently described, I oppose creation of this working
> group

+1, for the reasons below

Lars

> on the basis that it enables and seemingly encourages
> embedding identifiers for humans as addresses. Doing so
> would have significant privacy downsides, would enable
> new methods for censorship and discrimination, and could
> be very hard to mitigate should one wish to help protect
> people's privacy, as I think is current IETF policy.
> 
> If the work precluded the use of any identifiers that
> strongly map to humans then I'd be ok with it being done
> as it'd then only be a waste of resources. But I don't
> know how that could be enforced so I think it'd be better
> to just not do this work at all.

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