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Network Working Group                                      Adrian Farrel
IETF Internet Draft                                    Olddog Consulting
Proposed Status: Informational
Expires: April 2004                                        December 2004


               draft-farrel-rtg-morality-requirements-01.txt

         Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts

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Abstract

   It has often been the case that morality has not been given proper
   consideration in the design and specification of protocols produced
   within the Routing Area. This has led to a deline in the moral
   values within the Internet and attempts to retrofit a suitable
   moral code to implemented and deployed protocols has been shown to
   be sub-optimal.

   This document specifies the requirement for all new Routing Area
   Internet-Drafts to include a "Morality Considerations" section, and
   gives guidance on what that section should contain.


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Conventions used in this document

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

   The key words "SHALT", "SHALT NOT", "SMITE", and "PILLAR OF SALT" in
   this document are to be interpreted as expected.

1. Introduction

   It is well accepted by popular opinion and other reliable metrics
   that moral values are in decline and that degeneracy is on the
   increase. Young people are particularly at risk from the rising
   depravity in society and much of the blame for this can be placed
   squarely at the door of the Internet. If you do not feel safe on the
   streets at night, what do you think it is like on the Information
   Superhighway?

   When new protocols or protocol extensions are developed within the
   Routing Area, it is often the case that not enough consideration is
   given to the impact on the moral fiber of the Internet that the
   protocols cause. The result is that moral consequences are only
   understood once the protocols have been implemented, and sometimes
   not until after they have been deployed.

   The resultant attempts to restore the appropriate behavior and purge
   the community of improper activities are not always easy or
   architecturally pleasant. Further, it is possible that certain
   protocol designs make morality particularly hard to achieve.

   Recognising that moral issues are fundamental to the utility and
   success of protocols designed within the IETF, and that simply
   making a wishy-washy liberal-minded statement does not necessarily
   provide adequate guarantees of a correct and proper outcome for
   society, this document defines requirements for the inclusion of
   Morality Considerations sections in all Internet-Drafts produced
   within the Routing Area. Meeting these requirements will ensure that
   proper consideration is given to moral issues at all stages of the
   protocol development process from Requirements and Architecture,
   through Specification and Applicability.

   The remainder of this document describes what subsections are needed
   within a Morality Considerations section, and gives advice and
   guidance about what information should be contained in those
   subsections.




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2. Presence and Placement of Morality Considerations Sections

2.1. Null Morality Considerations Sections

   It may be the case that the authors of Internet-Drafts have no or few
   morals. This does not relieve them of the need to understand the
   consequences of their actions.

   The more likely an author is to say that a null Morality
   Considerations section is acceptable, the more pressure must be
   exerterd on him by the Area and the appropriate Working Group to
   ensure that he gives full consideration to his actions, and reflects
   long and hard on the consequences of his writing and the value of his
   life.

   On the other hand, some authors are well known to have the highest
   moral pedigree: a fact that is plainly obvious from the company they
   keep, the Working Groups they attend, and their eligibility for
   NomCom. It is clearly unnecessary for such esteemed persons to waste
   effort on Morality Consideration sections. It is inconceivable that
   anything that they write would have anything other than a beneficial
   effect on the Routing Area and the Internet in general.

2.2. Mandatory Subsections

   If the Morality Considerations section is present, it MUST contain at
   least the following subsections. The content of these subsections is
   surely self-evident to any right-thinking person. Further guidance can
   be obtained from your moral guardian, your household gods, or from any
   member of the IMM (Internet Moral Majority).

   - Likelihood of misuse by depraved or sick individuals. This
     subsection must fully address the possiblity that the proposed
     protocols or protocol extensions might be used for the distribution
     of blue, smutty or plain disgusting images.
   - Likelihood of misuse by misguided individuals. There is an obvious
     need to protect minors and people with misguided thought processes
     from utilising the protocols or protocol extensions for purposes
     that would inevitably do them harm.
   - Likelihood of misuse by large, multi-national corporations. Such a
     thought is, of course, unthinkable.
   - Availablity of oversight facilities. There are those who would
     corrupt our morals motivated as they are by a hatred of the freedom
     of Internet access with which we are graced. We place a significant
     burden of responsibility on those who guard our community from
     these evil-doers and it is only fitting that we give them as much
     support as is possible. Therefore, all encryption and obfuscation
     techniques MUST be excluded - no-one who has nothing to hide need
     fear the oversight of those whose morals are beyond doubt.

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   - Inter-SDO impact. We must allow for other moral frameworks and
     fully respect other people's right to subscribe to other
     belief systems. Such people are, however, wrong and doomed to
     spend eternity in a dark corner with only dial-up access. So
     it has been written.
   - Care and concern for avian carriers. A duck may be somebody's
     mother.

   In the event that one or more of these subsections is considered to
   be not relevant, it MUST still be present, and MUST contain a full
   rebuttal of this deviant thought.

2.3. Optional Subsections

   Additional subsections may be added to accommodate zealots.

2.4. Placement of Morality Considerations Sections

   The Morality Considerations section MUST be given full prominence in
   each Internet Draft.

3. Applicability Scenarios

   This section outlines, by way of example, some particular areas which
   are in dire need of reform and where a short, sharp shock could make
   a really big difference.

3.1. Provision of Services

   We must do our utmost to ensure that services are delivered in a
   timely and reliable way. Emphasis should be placed on Quality of
   Service (QoS) and meeting the needs of the consumer of the service.

   Arrangements should be made for regular provision of services and
   sermons should be to the point and contain a strong moral message.

3.2. Political Correctness (PC)

   Political correctness has gone too far. This problem can be traced
   way back to the 1970s when the desktop PC was invented. It is
   necessary that Internet Drafts observe the form of political
   correctness, but note that you do not always have to mean what you
   say.







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3.2.1. Differentiated Services

   Segregation of packets on the grounds of color has now been banned
   and Internet Drafts must not make use of this technique.

   If you follow all of the reccomendations in this document, you will
   find that "packets of color" (as we must now refer to them) tend to
   avoid your points of presence, and you will no longer be troubled by
   them.

3.2.2. Jumbo Packets

   It is no longer appropriate to refer to "jumbo packets". Please use
   the term "capacitorially challenged".

3.2.3. Byte Ordering

   Note that within Internet Drafts bytes (and bits) progress from the
   left to the right. This is how things should be.

3.3. Protection or Abstenance

   Much has been made recently of the need to provide protection within
   the Internet. It is the role of the IMM to determine when protection
   is required, and the role of the IESG bulldogs to ensure that we are
   all protected.

   However, protection is only one way to prevent unplanned outages and,
   as we all know, the ready availability of protection schemes such as
   1:1 (one-on-one) or 1:n (orgy-mode) have lead to a belief that it is
   acceptable to switch (or swing) at will. It should be noted that
   protection can fail, and under no circumstances should extra traffic
   be countenanced.

   In reality the only safe way to avoid passing data to your friends is
   to agree pledge to have no control plane before marriage. Join our
   campaign and sign up for the SONET Ring Thing.

3.4. Promiscuity

   Various disgusting protocols indulge in promiscuity. This appears to
   happen most often when an operator is unwilling to select a single
   partner and wants to play the field.

   Promiscuous modes of operation are an abomination only exceeded by
   multicast.




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4. Terminology

   Admission Control
     The caring investigative arm of the IMM.

   Doom
     Port 666. Need we say more?

   ECMP
     What is this? Some kind of Communism?

   Money
     The root of all evil.

   MPLS
     What is with this "layer two-and-a-half" nonsense? The world is
     flat, just accept the fact.

   Packet Switching
     Sounds like fraud to me.

   Path
     The route of all LSPs.

   Policy Control
     The adminstrative arm of the IMM.

   Random Walk
     Substance abuse is to be avoided.

   Rendezvous Point
     Poorly lit street corner. Not to be confused with the root of all
     multicast.

   Standard Body
     What we should all strive for.

   Strawberry Icecream
     Something that wills the void between rational discussion and all-out
     thermo nuclear war. [SCREAM]

5. Morality Considerations

   The moral pedigree of the author of this draft places him and his
   writings beyond question.





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6. IANA Considerations

   IANA should think carefully about the protection of their immortal
   souls.

7. Security Considerations

   Security is of the utmost important.

   A secure Internet community will ensure the security of all of its
   members.

8. Acknowledgements

   I would like to thank my guru Alex Dipandra-Zinin.

   Jozef Wroblewski, who clearly knows promiscuous behavior when he
   sees it, pointed out some of the dangers in promiscuous operation.

   No avian carriers were harmed in the production of this document.

9. Intellectual Property Considerations

   Property is theft. What is yours is mine. What is mine, you keep
   your hands off.

   The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any
   Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to
   pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in
   this document or the extent to which any license under such rights
   might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has
   made any independent effort to identify any such rights. Information
   on the procedures with respect to rights in RFC documents can be
   found in BCP 78 and BCP 79.

   Copies of IPR disclosures made to the IETF Secretariat and any
   assurances of licenses to be made available, or the result of an
   attempt made to obtain a general license or permission for the use of
   such proprietary rights by implementers or users of this
   specification can be obtained from the IETF on-line IPR repository at
   http://www.ietf.org/ipr.

10. Normative References

   I don't need to be told how to formulate my morals.





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11. Informative References

   To be frank, I don't find many other documents informative.

   [SCREAM]  Farrel, A., "Observations on Proposing Protocol
             Enhancements that Address Stated Requirements but also go
             Further by Meeting more General Needs",
             draft-farrel-problem-protocol-icrm-00.txt, June 2003, work
             in progress.

12. Author's Address

   Adrian Farrel
   Old Dog Consulting
   Email: adrian@olddog.co.uk
   Phone: I'm not telling you that. Why do you ask, anyway?

13. Full Copyright Statement

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). This document is subject
   to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and
   except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights.

   This document and the information contained herein are provided on an
   "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS
   OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET
   ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,

   INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE
   INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED
   WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.



















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