Not everything that’s technically possible should be done, said...
Not everything that’s technically possible should be done, said Internet Society Chairwoman Lynn St. Amour at a news conference on the opening day of the Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in Berlin on Monday. She was reflecting on the revelations…
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of state surveillance programs in the U.S. and other countries. “There is a tension between what was technically possible and the rule of law,” she said. The mass surveillance programs were “heavily discussed by engineers in the hallways” of the conference, said Chairman Russ Housley of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), who is sponsored by the National Security Agency in his IETF and IAB work. The IETF, Housley said, years ago during its Denver meeting decided to develop “strong cryptography, not weak cryptography.” IETF Chair Jari Arkko said strong end-to-end security of communication on the Internet is a core commitment of the organization. Days before the Berlin IETF meeting, a new request for comment on “privacy considerations for Internet protocols” was officially published. Security and privacy were essential in the IETF work, said Housley.