Transparency mechanism: Open Ethics Transparency Protocol

[anssiko]

IETF recently started experimental work on Open Ethics Transparency Protocol. I'm dropping a pointer here for interested folks to review (thanks @jyasskin for the pointer!).

IETF draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lukianets-open-ethics-transparency-protocol/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/OpenEthicsAI/OETP

From the draft:

Abstract

The Open Ethics Transparency Protocol (OETP) is an application-level protocol for publishing and accessing ethical Disclosures of IT Products and their Components. The Protocol is based on HTTP exchange of information about the ethical "postures", provided in an open and standardized format. [...]

This protocol based on HTTP seems to have some similar goals (in abstract sense, not technical) with Model Cards. Note in particular the "Informed consumer choices" this protocol provides facilities for:

1. Introduction

   The Open Ethics Transparency Protocol (OETP or Protocol) describes the creation and exchange of voluntary ethics Disclosures for IT products. It is brought as a solution to increase the transparency of how IT products are built and deployed. This document provides details on how disclosures for data collection and data processing practice are formed, stored, validated, and exchanged in a standardized and open format.

   OETP provides facilities for:

   • Informed consumer choices : End-users able to make informed choices based on their own ethical preferences and product disclosure.

[bbcjamesfletcher]

@anssiko i'll add this into the possible mitigations alongside Model Cards