It's definitely a good thing that the IAB and the IETF community acknowledge the need to prioritize the interests of "End Users" over other interested parties. 

" In these situations, when one of those parties is an "end user" of
   the Internet - for example, a person using a Web browser, mail
   client, or another agent that connects to the Internet - the Internet
   Architecture Board argues that the IETF should favor their interests
   over those of parties."

This statement aligns with the goals of our ICANN At-Large community. 

If At-Large does decide to take a position and comment on this RFC, I'd suggest making a change to Section 5. IANA Considerations. The current statement "This document does not require action by IANA." is accurate. However, it might be a good idea to add a sentence which acknowledges ICANN's At-Large remit to focus on "End User Interests" since ICANN now runs IANA. It might be beneficial to document the connection between the At-Large community and the IETF community at this point in the document. 

Cheers!
David

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 7:50 AM Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi <Hadia@tra.gov.eg> wrote:
I guess the IETF when speaking about users being represented by a software, they do not really mean "represented" but they mean a software 
doing a certain job on behalf of the users. They are speaking from a pure technical point of view, that allows them when considering end users 
in their technical decisions not to ignore this aspect.  I like how  they defined end users from a broader perspective where they said "the end user of a protocol to manage routers is not the router administrator, it is the people using the network that the router operates within"
 
I think this draft is good and necessary start
 
Hadia 
 
 

 

 

From: CPWG [mailto:cpwg-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Alberto Soto
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 2:30 AM
To: Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond; b_jouris@yahoo.com; avri@acm.org; CPWG
Subject: Re: [CPWG] Fwd: [hrpc] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-i

 

Recently, in informal talks at NASIG 2019 and then formally in a session at ICANN 66, I said the following: We are the ones who are defending the interests of the end users, but the end users are those who have no idea that ICANN exists , ALAC or someone who defends their interests on the Internet. Are those who have a problem with your domain, or with your internet provider that charges a differential fee for the same service, or with your identity that was stolen via the Internet, or who sees that Amazon wants a domain similar to your region , or several more problems than any of us can imagine. But who does not know where to start claiming, we do, that is why we defend their interests and we are also end users

Never can an end user be represented by software or anything other than a person who knows the rights that the end user has.

I think we should explain this a bit to those who still have doubts ...

 

Kind regards

 

Alberto

 

De: CPWG <cpwg-bounces@icann.org> en nombre de Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com>
Fecha: miércoles, 11 de diciembre de 2019, 20:47
Para: "b_jouris@yahoo.com" <b_jouris@yahoo.com>, "avri@acm.org" <avri@acm.org>, CPWG <cpwg@icann.org>
Asunto: Re: [CPWG] Fwd: [hrpc] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-i

 

Dear Bill, all,

knowing how many feel in the IETF community, asking the IETF to broaden this document to include ICANN will be met with opposition. After all, this is an Internet Draft meant for the IETF Process.

One bit did, however, make me smile. I quote:

End users are not necessarily a homogenous group; they might have
   different views of how the Internet should work, and might occupy
   several roles, such as a seller, buyer, publisher, reader, service
   provider and consumer.  An end user might be browsing the Web,
   monitoring remote equipment, playing a game, video conferencing with
   colleagues, sending messages to friends, or performing an operation
   in a remote surgery theatre.  They might be "at the keyboard", or
   represented by software indirectly (e.g., as a daemon).

"End users might be represented by software indirectly". A "daemon" is an automated program that runs tasks in the background of a computer. Thus this paragraph appears to note that some "end users" could be represented by a piece of software". I wonder how many people in At-Large are actually pieces of software? Should we subject members to a Turing Test? :-)
Kindest regards,

Olivier

On 07/12/2019 18:27, Bill Jouris via CPWG wrote:

At the moment, this draft RFC is narrowly focused on IETF, and how it prioritizes the interests of end users.  (Or, as we would phrase it, the interests of the At Large community.)  However I believe that there is already a suggestion that it might be broadened to include ICANN.  

 

I have no idea how far IETF's remit runs, and whether that is even an option.  But if it is, At Large might wish to consider weighing in with a group opinion, in addition to whatever individual opinions some of us might offer. 

 

Bill Jouris 

 

 

On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 10:18 AM, avri doria


fyi



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Subject:     [hrpc] Fwd: New Version Notification for
draft-iab-for-the-users-01.txt
Date:     Sat, 7 Dec 2019 10:29:15 +1100
From:     Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
To:     hrpc@irtf.org



The IAB wanted to give this draft wider exposure to folks than just
those on architecture-discuss; comment / feedback welcome (here, or on
the draft issues list at
<https://github.com/intarchboard/for-the-users/issues>).

Apologies if you've seen this before.

Cheers,


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> *Date: *18 November 2019 at 11:43:38 am AEDT
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> A new version of I-D, draft-iab-for-the-users-01.txt
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