[Chapter-delegates] Launch of a discussion on DOA / DONA

[Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond]

Dear Colleagues,

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:
https://www.internetsociety.org/doc/overview-digital-object-architecture-doa
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2016/10/what-digital-object-architecture-doa-read-our-new-information-paper

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.

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.
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.

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?
And finally, how should this topic be addressed in light of the Internet
Society's combining of efforts with the Online Trust Alliance (OTA):
https://www.internetsociety.org/news/ota-and-isoc-combine-resources-enhance-online-trust-security-and-privacy

Looking forward to hear from you soon.
Kindest regards,

Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
Internet Society Chapter AC Steering Committee member
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