I hadn't expected to respond to this Last Call since my
comments have already been incorporated. However, I'd now
like to express my support for publication on the grounds
that...
On 06/12/2013 22:31, t.p. wrote:
I oppose publication of this I-D by the IETF.
The point has already been that better defences against monitoring
likely means greater use of encryption and encryption is at times
harmful.
...this is a social, economic and political issue outside the
IETF's scope. Our ethical obligation as engineers is clear to me:
make the Internet as secure as possible, from all security points
of view including privacy. Actually the recent revelations don't
change a thing except that they have brought a well understood
attack model into public view and underlined that we need to
defend against it.
We don't solve (e.g.) consumer protection issues by allowing the
Internet to trivially breach privacy.
Brian