[AusNOG] Fwd: NEWS: Internet Society Commends Internet Architecture Board Recommendation on Encryption-by-Default for the Internet

[Narelle Clark]

FYI  Fresh from the IETF.

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> From: "Greg Wood" <wood at isoc.org>
> Date: Nov 15, 2014 7:49 AM
> Subject: [isoc-advisory-council] NEWS: Internet Society Commends Internet
Architecture Board Recommendation on Encryption-by-Default for the Internet
>
> INTERNET SOCIETY COMMENDS INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD RECOMMENDATION ON
ENCRYPTION-BY-DEFAULT FOR THE INTERNET
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>
https://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-commends-internet-architecture-board-recommendation-encryption-default
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> Ensuring user trust is key to the Internet's growth
>
> [Washington, D.C. and Geneva, Switzerland] – 15 November 2014  – The
Internet Society (ISOC) Board of Trustees strongly supports the Internet
Architecture Board's (IAB) statement that encryption should to be the norm
for the Internet traffic, and believes that this is an important additional
step of ongoing efforts by the technical community to address the important
issue of pervasive monitoring.
>
> The IAB's statement aligns with the Internet Engineering Task Force's
(IETF) statement that pervasive monitoring, whatever the source, must be
considered an attack on the Internet as well as current work across IETF
working groups to strengthen protocols.
>
> User trust is critical to the Internet's continued growth and evolution.
Realizing the IAB's aspiration would drastically reduce the ability to
eavesdrop or modify information sent over the Internet.
>
> Like the IAB, the ISOC Board of Trustees recognizes that implementing
this aspiration raises a number of practical issues and technical
challenges. In addition to network management, intrusion detection, and
spam prevention, we expect there will be economic and policy challenges.
>
> As the organizational home for the IETF, the Internet Society will take
an active role in facilitating and participating in the conversations
required to address these challenges going forward.
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