Subject: Re: [art] Side meeting for IP address privacy on the web

From: Paul Jensen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 11:50:40 -0500

My side meeting at IETF 107 was cancelled, like all side meetings at IETF
107.
The PEARG chairs would now like to propose a virtual interim on the topic
of IP address privacy:
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/pearg/Ok7mxbJn6cZ0lvHVKC3RMSxnxXc/
Please let them know if you're interested in attending.

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 2:57 PM Paul Jensen <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I intend on holding a side meeting at IETF 107 to talk about IP address
> privacy on the web.  As many browsers work to combat fingerprinting on the
> web, a user's IP address, the single most identifying
> fingerprintable surface, remains largely unprotected. Various browsers have
> acknowledged the fingerprintability of IP addresses or have proposed a
> solution: Chrome (https://github.com/bslassey/ip-blindness), Firefox (
> https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/09/10/firefoxs-test-pilot-program-returns-with-firefox-private-network-beta/),
> Safari (https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention-policy/), Brave (
> https://brave.com/vpn0-a-privacy-preserving-distributed-virtual-private-network/).
> I'd like to hold a side meeting on this topic to start the conversation
> around IP address privacy on the web.  Specifically with the goal of
> preventing IP from being used as a tracking vector, but trying to do so
> without breaking beneficial use cases such as DoS, fraud, spam and other
> abuse prevention.  Agenda might look something like this:
>
>
>    - What IP is used for
>       - Spam, abuse, fraud, DoS protection
>       - Geo IP
>       - Ad targeting
>       - others?
>    - Privacy research
>       - IP reidentification
>       - IP fingerprinting
>    - Proposals for IP blindness
>       - VPN0
>       - FPN
>       - Willful IP Blindness
>
> If you're interested in attending please let me know which days you have
> conflicting obligations in the morning slot.
>
> Paul
>