privacy pass at IETF (was Re: WD: Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA)

For people who were interested in this conversation last year on Privacy Pass and alternative trusted token systems and standardization, there is a BoF at IETF to gather interest and scope for a Working Group and an early set of drafts to see what is considered.

That group is meeting virtually this week, rather than in Vancouver (owing to pandemic). Agenda and details here:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/107/materials/agenda-107-privacypass-03 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/107/materials/agenda-107-privacypass-03>
(4pm Eastern on Thursday, March 26th, via IETF WebEx)

And the initial drafts are here:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/privacypass/documents/ <https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/privacypass/documents/>

While switching the IETF meeting to all virtual can make it challenging for casual and high-bandwidth interaction, it may make this meeting more accessible to folks who wouldn’t be able to attend the IETF meeting in person anyway.

Cheers,
Nick

> On Feb 18, 2019, at 5:32 PM, Pete Snyder <psnyder@brave.com> wrote:
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>> It might be that we could provide the feedback to the Accessible Platform Architectures WG that there are protocols under discussion that could provide anonymity, unlinkability or other privacy properties even when relying on a CAPTCHA provider and that further work in that direction could provide a more generalizable solution. That is, we shouldn’t say, “oh, PrivacyPass already solved this, just use that” but clarify that there are potential techniques to use.
> 
> I think the above is a great idea.  I’m not sure what the best way forward would be, but would it be to arrange a call / similar with the "Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA” folks, the Privacy Pass folks (Alex Davidson, the lead author on the privacy pass paper) is at CloudFlare at the moment IIRC, and is still interested in the space.