The piece in CircleID to which Geoff Huston is responding is pretty clearly a troll, a bid for attention from someone professionally attached to some pretty marginal "standards" groups. It's incoherent and poorly informed. It's possible to make colorable arguments about the need for security protocols that admit to legitimate monitoring. The CircleID piece didn't make any of those.

It's a little embarrassing to see someone of Geoff Huston's stature responding to what is so clearly a plea for recognition from someone who would otherwise have no impact whatsoever on Internet engineering. It's much more embarrassing for CircleID to have published that piece to begin with, but, what do you expect? CircleID is terrible.