The Design of the Internet's Architecture by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Human Rights.

The debate on whether and how the Internet can protect and foster human rights has become a defining issue of our time. This debate often focuses on Internet governance from a regulatory perspective, underestimating the influence and power of the governance of the Internet's architecture. The techni...

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Publicado en:Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 449 - 469
Autores principales: Cath, Corinne, Floridi, Luciano
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2017
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        Internet administration
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        Human rights
        Information ethics
        Internet architecture
        Internet Engineering Task Force
        Internet governance
        Privacy
        Protocols
        Responsibility-by-design
        Right to freedom of expression
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      ab: The debate on whether and how the Internet can protect and foster human rights has become a defining issue of our time. This debate often focuses on Internet governance from a regulatory perspective, underestimating the influence and power of the governance of the Internet's architecture. The technical decisions made by Internet Standard Developing Organisations (SDOs) that build and maintain the technical infrastructure of the Internet influences how information flows. They rearrange the shape of the technically mediated public sphere, including which rights it protects and which practices it enables. In this article, we contribute to the debate on SDOs' ethical responsibility to bring their work in line with human rights. We defend three theses. First, SDOs' work is inherently political. Second, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), one of the most influential SDOs, has a moral obligation to ensure its work is coherent with, and fosters, human rights. Third, the IETF should enable the actualisation of human rights through the protocols and standards it designs by implementing a responsibility-by-design approach to engineering. We conclude by presenting some initial recommendations on how to ensure that work carried out by the IETF may enable human rights.
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