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Dear Colleagues,<br>
<br>
one of the tasks that I volunteered for as part of the Chapter
Advisory Council Executive Committee is to check with the Internet
Society Chapters community on their view of DOA / DONA - Digital
Object Architecture. An excellent description of the topic is given
on:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.internetsociety.org/doc/overview-digital-object-architecture-doa">https://www.internetsociety.org/doc/overview-digital-object-architecture-doa</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2016/10/what-digital-object-architecture-doa-read-our-new-information-paper">https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2016/10/what-digital-object-architecture-doa-read-our-new-information-paper</a><br>
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Back at the IGF in Guadalajara, I raise the topic with several
people, as I felt DOA could be a threat to other types of addressing
and also impose a centralised, top down control of Internet of
Things (IoT) devices. That goes directly against Internet Core
values and certainly obliterates and idea that governance of IoT
devices could continue in a multistakeholder manner. Furthermore,
this centralisation of control introduces a security weakness that
is serious - a single point of failure. That's why I called it a
threat.<br>
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Back in Guadalajara, I raised the concern that the IETF should speed
up its work to propose alternative identification/trust systems to
DOA which include local protocols for local trust that is end user
controlled.<br>
Since then, I have spoken to several people at IETF and whilst work
continues to take place in these topics, the perception of immediate
threat from DOA/DONA has somehow faded.<br>
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So my question is simple: in your view, is the threat of DOA/DONA
still as strong as it was back 6 months ago. Is this a topic that we
in the Internet Society should be active about? In what way? Should
we promote more resources in the IETF to design alternative? Or is
this just one of many technologies that will hardly have any impact?<br>
And finally, how should this topic be addressed in light of the
Internet Society's combining of efforts with the Online Trust
Alliance (OTA):<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.internetsociety.org/news/ota-and-isoc-combine-resources-enhance-online-trust-security-and-privacy">https://www.internetsociety.org/news/ota-and-isoc-combine-resources-enhance-online-trust-security-and-privacy</a><br>
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Looking forward to hear from you soon.<br>
Kindest regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond<br>
Internet Society Chapter AC Steering Committee member<br>
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