Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-23 Thread Roger Jørgensen
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Paul Wouters p...@cypherpunks.ca wrote: snip Note that decentralising makes you less anonymous. If everyone runs their own jabber service with TLS and OTR, you are less anonymous than today. So decentralising is not a solution on its own for meta-data tracking.

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-23 Thread Ben Laurie
On 21 September 2013 06:02, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: Hi Brian, At 21:54 19-09-2013, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I got my arm slightly twisted to produce the attached: a simple concatenation of some of the actionable suggestions made in the discussion of PRISM and Bruce Schneier's call for

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-22 Thread Mark Nottingham
On 22/09/2013, at 1:08 PM, Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp wrote: Mark Nottingham wrote: Then, protocols not have any authoritative specification and should never be standardized and there should be no central authority to manage different versions of the protocols. From

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-22 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net Except that essentially all services other than email have gained popularity in centralized form, including IM. So there appear to be some important and difficult operational and usability barriers, standing in the way of more truly

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, 22 September, 2013 07:02 -0400 Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu wrote: ... Yes. $$$. Nobody makes much/any money off email because it is so de-centralized. People who build wonderful new applications build them in a centralized way so that they can control them. And they

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-22 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013, Dave Crocker wrote: 2) Encourage distributed services over centralized services. For example, social networking services today are heavily centralized. +1 Except that essentially all services other than email have gained popularity in centralized form, including IM.

RE: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-22 Thread Christian Huitema
Yes. $$$. Nobody makes much/any money off email because it is so de-centralized. People who build wonderful new applications build them in a centralized way so that they can control them. And they want to control them so that they can monetize them. That is even true of the large email

RE: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-22 Thread Scott Brim
I like what Christian said. Also, perhaps we should figure out how to unbundle services and monetize what we can. On Sep 22, 2013 1:38 PM, Christian Huitema huit...@microsoft.com wrote: Yes. $$$. Nobody makes much/any money off email because it is so de-centralized. People who build wonderful

RE: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, 22 September, 2013 17:37 + Christian Huitema huit...@microsoft.com wrote: ... It is very true that innovation can only be sustained with a revenue stream. But we could argue that several services have now become pretty much standardized, with very little additional

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-22 Thread joel jaeggli
On 9/22/13 11:35 AM, Scott Brim wrote: I like what Christian said. Also, perhaps we should figure out how to unbundle services and monetize what we can. On Sep 22, 2013 1:38 PM, Christian Huitema huit...@microsoft.com mailto:huit...@microsoft.com wrote: Yes. $$$. Nobody makes

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, 22 September, 2013 12:59 -0400 Paul Wouters p...@cypherpunks.ca wrote: Except that essentially all services other than email have gained popularity in centralized form, including IM. Note that decentralising makes you less anonymous. If everyone runs their own jabber

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-22 Thread Josh Howlett
Jari, It is important to understand the limitations of technology in this discussion. We can improve communications security, and in some cases reduce the amount information communicated. But we cannot help a situation where you are communicating with a party that you cannot entirely trust with

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-21 Thread Roger Jørgensen
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: I got my arm slightly twisted to produce the attached: a simple concatenation of some of the actionable suggestions made in the discussion of PRISM and Bruce Schneier's call for action. There are one thing I

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-21 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 09/21/2013 02:42 PM, Roger Jørgensen wrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: I got my arm slightly twisted to produce the attached: a simple concatenation of some of the actionable suggestions made in the discussion of PRISM and Bruce

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-21 Thread Roger Jørgensen
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Stephen Farrell stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie wrote: On 09/21/2013 02:42 PM, Roger Jørgensen wrote: snip There are one thing I don't see mention in your draft, the discussion that moved from ietf@ and over into lisp@ about encryption by default wherever it's

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-21 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013, Stephen Farrell wrote: On 09/21/2013 02:42 PM, Roger Jørgensen wrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: I got my arm slightly twisted to produce the attached: a simple concatenation of some of the actionable suggestions

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-21 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mark Nottingham wrote: Then, protocols not have any authoritative specification and should never be standardized and there should be no central authority to manage different versions of the protocols. From a PRISM viewpoint, the cost of parsing different formats, understanding different

RE: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-21 Thread Christian Huitema
-Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 9:55 PM To: IETF discussion list Subject: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt] I got my arm slightly twisted

RE: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-21 Thread Christian Huitema
I got my arm slightly twisted to produce the attached: a simple concatenation of some of the actionable suggestions made in the discussion of PRISM and Bruce Schneier's call for action. Brian, This is a useful summary, but I would like to see a few additions: 1) Encourage protocol designs

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-21 Thread Dave Crocker
On 9/21/2013 9:40 PM, Christian Huitema wrote: 1) Encourage protocol designs that rely on peer-to-peer transmission, rather than intermediate relays, because relays are natural targets for interception services. Unless you are interacting on the same local net segment, when is Internet

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-20 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 20 Sep 2013, at 05:54, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: I got my arm slightly twisted to produce the attached: Thanks for getting that done S

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-20 Thread Josh Howlett
I confess that I am confused by much of this discussion. As I understand it, PRISM is not a signals intelligence activity; it only addresses that data at rest within those organisations who have partnered with the NSA. As such, improving protocol security will achieve nothing against PRISM; it is

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
Josh Howlett wrote: I confess that I am confused by much of this discussion. Several people in IETF is under control of NSA, maybe. As I understand it, PRISM is not a signals intelligence activity; it only addresses that data at rest within those organisations who have partnered with the

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-20 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 09/20/2013 10:59 AM, Josh Howlett wrote: I confess that I am confused by much of this discussion. As I understand it, PRISM is not a signals intelligence activity; it only addresses that data at rest within those organisations who have partnered with the NSA. As such, improving protocol

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-20 Thread Jari Arkko
Josh, Stephen, It is important to understand the limitations of technology in this discussion. We can improve communications security, and in some cases reduce the amount information communicated. But we cannot help a situation where you are communicating with a party that you cannot entirely

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
(2013/09/20 21:15), Jari Arkko wrote: Josh, Stephen, It is important to understand the limitations of technology in this discussion. We can improve communications security, and in some cases reduce the amount information communicated. But we cannot help a situation where you are

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-20 Thread Scott Brim
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Jari Arkko jari.ar...@piuha.net wrote: It is important to understand the limitations of technology in this discussion. We can improve communications security, and in some cases reduce the amount information communicated. But we cannot help a situation where

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-20 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
Hi Masataka, On 20.09.2013 16:06, Masataka Ohta wrote: (2013/09/20 21:15), Jari Arkko wrote: Josh, Stephen, It is important to understand the limitations of technology in this discussion. We can improve communications security, and in some cases reduce the amount information communicated.

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
Hannes Tschofenig wrote: We can discourage people communicating with a party that are under full control of USG, which is why using cloud services should be discouraged, which is a technical issue. An open standardization process means that everyone can participate, including people who

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Nottingham
On 20/09/2013, at 9:16 PM, Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp wrote: As such the only practical way for a typical user to protect themselves against PRISM is to switch to other providers based in jurisdictions that provide the appropriate protections, or agitate to change the

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mark Nottingham wrote: Not necessarily. The proper protection is to avoid cloud services and have our own end systems fully under control of ourselves. Toward the goal, IETF should shutdown all the cloud related WGs and never develop any protocol to promote cloud service. I draw the

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-20 Thread SM
Hi Brian, At 21:54 19-09-2013, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I got my arm slightly twisted to produce the attached: a simple concatenation of some of the actionable suggestions made in the discussion of PRISM and Bruce Schneier's call for action. Thanks for writing the draft. For the sake of

Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Nottingham
On 21/09/2013, at 11:33 AM, Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp wrote: Cost for monitoring should be large? Then, protocols not have any authoritative specification and should never be standardized and there should be no central authority to manage different versions of the

[Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I got my arm slightly twisted to produce the attached: a simple concatenation of some of the actionable suggestions made in the discussion of PRISM and Bruce Schneier's call for action. Brian Original Message Subject: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt