Yakov Shafranovich <research(_at_)solidmatrix(_dot_)com> wrote:
Further, someone else at the IETF has once told that privacy and
anonimity are considered core values of the IETF, and that
things could get Orwellian really fast if privacy is surrendered; and
anonymity is a fundamental component of privacy.
My concern is that I don't see a requirement that SMTP should solve
all of the worlds problems. I understand that SMTP should not
*remove* peoples privacy and anonymity. But there is no requirement
(and there SHOULD be no requirement) that SMTP creates privacy and
anonymity, where there was none before.
e.g. If the vaunted "human rights workers" don't have access to
computers, there are still many ways for them to get their message out
to the rest of the world. The mere existence of access to computers &
SMTP changes nothing. If they want to be anonymous and private when
sending information to the rest of the world, there are hundreds of
methods outside of SMTP that they can use.
Further, I believe that the emotional appeal to human rights workers
is inappropriate in a professional forum. Arguments of the form "If
you're for proposal X, then you're for killing people!" should be
explicitly outside of the scope of ASRG. We can solve any necessary
issues without resorting to polemics.
Alan DeKok.
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