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Not protecting these characteristics could result in (partial) loss of functionality and connectivity. </p> <p> As evinced by <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1958.html">RFC 1958</a>, the Internet aims to be the global network of networks that provides unfettered connectivity to all users at all times and for any content. Open, secure and reliable connectivity is essential for rights such as freedom of expression and freedom of association. Since the Internet’s objective of connectivity makes it an enabler of human rights, its architectural design converges with the human rights framework. </p> <p> The Internet was designed with freedom and openness of communications as core values. But as the scale and the industrialization of the Internet has grown greatly, the influence of such world-views started to compete with other values. This research group aims to explore the relations between human rights and protocols and to provide guidelines to inform future protocol development and decision making where protocol s impact the effective exercise of the rights to freedom of expression or association. </p> <h2>Objective</h2> <p>This research has these major aims:</p> <ul> <li> To expose the relation between protocols and human rights, with a focus on the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. </li> <li> To propose guidelines to protect the Internet as a human-rights-enabling environment in future protocol development, in a manner similar to the work done for Privacy Considerations in <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6973.html">RFC 6973</a>. </li> <li> To increase the awareness in both the human rights community and the technical community on the importance of the technical workings of the Internet and its impact on human rights. </li> </ul> <h2>Outputs</h2> <p> The research group plans on using a variety of research methods to create different outputs including, but not limited to: </p> <ul> <li> <b>Internet drafts,</b> some of which may be put on IRTF RFC stream. These will concern progress of the project, methodology, and will define any possible protocol considerations. </li> <li> <b>Policy and academic papers,</b> for in-depth analysis and discussion of the relationship between human rights and the Internet architecture and protocols. </li> <li> <b>Film and textual interviews</b> with a diverse set of community members, to give an accessible insight into the variety of opinions on this topic represented in the <a href="https://ietf.org/">IETF</a>. </li> <li> <b>Data analysis and visualization,</b> to research and visualize the language used in current and historic RFCs and mailinglist discussions to expose core architectural principles, language and deliberations on human rights of those affected by the network. </li> <li> <b>Protocol analysis.</b> Data analysis and visualization of (existing) protocols in the wild to research their concrete impact on human rights. </li> </ul> <h2>Membership</h2> <p> Membership is open to any interested parties who intend to remain current with the published documents and mailing list issues. </p> </div> <div class='col-sm-4'> <h2>Chairs</h2> <p> HRPC is chaired by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/malloryknodel/">Mallory Knodel</a> and <a href="https://www.sofiaceli.com">Sof铆a Celi</a>. </p> <h2>Mailing List</h2> <p> The HRPC mailing list is <a href="mailto:hrpc@irtf.org">hrpc@irtf.org</a>. To subscribe or access the list archives, visit the <a href="https://mailman.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/hrpc">mailman page</a>. </p> <h2>Datatracker</h2> <p> Documents and meeting materials for the HRPC can be found on the <a href='https://datatracker.ietf.org/rg/hrpc/about/'>IETF datatracker.</a> </p> <h2>Web Page</h2> <p> Additional HRPC information is available at <a href="https://hrpc.io/">https://hrpc.io/</a>. </p> <h2>Timeline</h2> <p>The HRPC was chartered on 2015-11-30.</p> </div> </div> </div> <footer class='bg-secondary mt-auto'> <div class='container'> <div class='row pb-4 pt-4'> <div class='col-sm-2'> <p> <a class='link-light link-underline-secondary' href='https://www.ietf.org/'> IETF </a> </p> </div> <div class='col-sm-2'> <p> <a class='link-light link-underline-secondary' href='https://www.iab.org/'> IAB </a> </p> </div> <div class='col-sm-2'> <p> <a class='link-light link-underline-secondary' href='https://www.iana.org/'> IANA </a> </p> </div> <div class='col-sm-2'> <p> <a class='link-light link-underline-secondary' href='https://www.rfc-editor.org/'> RFC Editor </a> </p> </div> <div class='col-sm-2'> <p> <a class='link-light link-underline-secondary' href='https://www.ietf.org/about/administration/overview/'> IETF LLC </a> </p> </div> <div class='col-sm-2'> <p> <a class='link-light link-underline-secondary' href='https://trustee.ietf.org/'> IETF Trust </a> </p> </div> </div> </div> </footer> <script src='bootstrap-5.3.1-dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.js'></script> </body> </html>