Re: Proposal

[Aaron Wolf]

This issue came up in the original drafting, and I don't feel very strongly here.

I am simply suggesting that these issues are distinct enough to be called out.

The C2 clause about discrimination doesn't get into the mechanism either. So, is discrimination just in the terms of service versus enforced through technical means.

I'm suggesting that blocking the entire service based on IP origin to discriminate per C2 is at least distinct from the sorts of things that require some sort of authentication like CAPTCHA or otherwise.

I do personally think that it's worth distinguishing whether a service is discriminating because they are legally compelled to. Where it goes in the criteria structure, I don't know.

On 2023-12-19 10:32, Fischers Fritz wrote:

> Dear Aaron,
>
> We currently have the criterion "Does not discriminate against classes
> of users, or against any country" (C2). I believe blocking IP addresses
> for a whole country would dissatisfy this criterion.
>
> I believe you would like to separate this criterion into two:
> no voluntary discrimination and no legally mandated discrimination.
> No voluntary discrimination would be allowed at grade C, and
> no legally mandated discrimination would be allowed at some higher
> grade, maybe B. Is that right?
>
> With great honor,
> Fischers Fritz
>