[governance] [bestbits] Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

After a longish career in security I find that there’s a delicate balance between three things - privacy, security and usability.

It is not always possible, or even advisable in certain cases, to achieve an equitable balance between the three, let alone one weighted excessively in favor of one of the three.

There is a substantial body of academic papers on the subject - https://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/

> On 29-Oct-2015, at 9:06 PM, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at consensus.pro> wrote:
> 
> For what its worth, in some places, I, too don’t think balance is the idea.
> 
> For instance, starting from the position that in privacy ‘balance’ is the objective means that there’s a finite amount of privacy to go around and it has to get parceled out amongst competing priorities. That’s a zero-sum outlook - why would that be a desirable starting place? Surely what is wanted is a win-win - solutions which are more than the sum of their parts.
> 
> Just an example, but top of mind for me when I hear about ‘balance’.


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