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Re: Last Call: <draft-farrell-perpass-attack-02.txt> (Pervasive Monitoring is an Attack) to Best Current Practice

2013-12-12 19:43:23
On 13/12/2013 09:51, Eliot Lear wrote:
Dale,

On 12/12/13 8:57 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:

I would say that our ethical obligation as engineers is not to decide
what technological policy is best for society, but rather to inform
and educate the public (in all its facets) as well as possible about
the realities and the possibilities of the technology, so that the
larger society can decide how to handle the unavoidable tradeoffs
between various benefits and costs.

Without getting into whether I agree or disagree with you on this point,
I think it's a good way to frame at least some of the discussion. 
Thanks for that.

I agree too. On the other hand, the IETF writes technical documents. I think
we decided some years ago to leave the larger society issues, including
education, to ISOC.

    Brian

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