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