On 11/06/2018 09:01 AM, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> Following up on the in-room discussion regarding Human Rights Protocol 
> Considerations as compared to Security Considerations and other types of 
> considerations that appear in IETF documents:
> 
> I mentioned at the mic that we don't have any documents representing IETF 
> consensus that provide guidance for writing human rights protocol 
> considerations. It was mentioned that RFC 8280 describes such guidelines. 
> True, it does, but it's an Informational document that "represents the 
> consensus of the Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group of the 
> Internet Research Task Force". RFCs 3552 (Security Considerations) and 8126 
> (IANA Considerations) are, in comparison, IETF BCPs. So, I'll stand by my 
> comment regarding the lack of _IETF_ consensus on the topic.

Thanks Scott, as you know there are also Privacy Considerations, as outlined in 
RFC6973, which also do not constitute community consensus but are widely used. 

Furthermore, if something is not a community consensus, it doesn't mean we 
MAY/SHOULD/MUST NOT do it. 

Best,

Niels

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Niels ten Oever
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Datactive Research Group
University of Amsterdam

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