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INFORMATIONAL

Author:

A. Cooper

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IAB

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6462

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Abstract

On December 8-9, 2010, the IAB co-hosted an Internet privacy workshopwith the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Internet Society(ISOC), and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial IntelligenceLaboratory (CSAIL). The workshop revealed some of the fundamentalchallenges in designing, deploying, and analyzing privacy-protectiveInternet protocols and systems. Although workshop participants andthe community as a whole are still far from understanding how best tosystematically address privacy within Internet standards development,workshop participants identified a number of potential next steps.For the IETF, these included the creation of a privacy directorate toreview Internet-Drafts, further work on documenting privacyconsiderations for protocol developers, and a number of exploratoryefforts concerning fingerprinting and anonymized routing. Potentialaction items for the W3C included investigating the formation of aprivacy interest group and formulating guidance about fingerprinting,referrer headers, data minimization in APIs, usability, and generalconsiderations for non-browser-based protocols.

Note that this document is a report on the proceedings of theworkshop. The views and positions documented in this report arethose of the workshop participants and do not necessarily reflect theviews of the IAB, W3C, ISOC, or MIT CSAIL. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

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