[Ndn-interest] NDN protocol principles: no privacy?

[GTS]

Hi Mark,

I'm a huge fan of privacy and a lot of my research privacy-related.
But, I can't define "privacy". I wonder if anyone can do it precisely 
and succinctly?
Might be because it's an amorphous and fluid notion.

Perhaps if NDN folks were to include *privacy* as one of their guiding 
principles,
it'd be like a stereotypical beauty pageant contestant who,
when asked about her (or his?) ideals, comes up with something
like: "Peace on Earth"?
:-)

On a less serious note, whenever I see things like codified "principles"
(a notion similar to "commandments"), I can't help but think of a new 
ideology
or a new cult being started.

Cheers,
Gene

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Gene Tsudik
Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science
University of California, Irvine

On 3/12/16 6:58 AM, Mark Stapp wrote:
> I had many questions as I first read the list of "six principles" that 
> Alex shared this week. One question was about the issue of privacy. I 
> was somewhat surprised to see nothing in the top-six list about 
> exposure of user activities on the internet, or about establishing a 
> privacy baseline for the NDN architecture. Given the current level of 
> intense and broad interest in the issues of passive observation and 
> personal data collection, it seems to me that that topic deserves a 
> statement of "principle". I'd like to suggest that there be an 
> unambiguous statement that NDN will establish a level of communication 
> privacy that uses state-of-the-art cryptography as the default.
>
> I understand that some of the exposure and correlation issues we 
> experience currently arise from existing application protocols. HTTP 
> can be used for activity-tracking and correlating whether or not TLS 
> is in use, for example. A statement of principle seems like a useful 
> way to guide development of both NDN transport features and NDN 
> applications.
>
> At the same time, if NDN has decided that it will not establish a 
> private-by-default baseline, I think that deserves some justification. 
> It's clear from our experience using the IP internet that without 
> default settings that are privacy-preserving, individuals will 
> continue to be vulnerable.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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