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[FYI] Changing The Code: Wird die IETF zum Kollaborateur?
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- Subject: [FYI] Changing The Code: Wird die IETF zum Kollaborateur?
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:48:46 +0100
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[Auf einmal wollen alle den Code und damit das Law des Internet (im
Lessig'schen Sinne) aendern. Nach der Hollywoodbranche, den
Politikern nun die Techniker. - Wenn das nur nicht schiefgeht.
--AHH]
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36566-2,00.html
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Who Should Fight Cybercrime?
by Katie Dean
3:00 a.m. Jun. 1, 2000 PDT
As the world's top politicians, lawmakers, and business types argue
and bleat over what must be done to stop the horrible, world-stopping
threat known as cybercrime, a group of engineers who built and
preside over the Internet's backbone are debating whether they should
get involved.
At the core of the discussion: Politicians generally don't have the
technical understanding to make the informed decisions that could
become law. On the flip side: Engineers are neither politicians nor
police.
Hence the debate among members of an Internet Engineering Task Force
mailing list: Should engineers come up with their own solutions to
fight cybercrime and push them forward?
"Technical reality always trumps political blather everywhere that
matters," wrote Vernon Schryver, setting the tone for the discussion.
Jacob Palme, a computer science professor at the University of
Stockholm, launched the email debate about a week ago.
"Should IETF do anything to fight the increasing incidences of Net
criminality?" he wrote to the list. "Can we do anything? Can the
protocols, which IETF manages, be modified so as to make it easier to
fight virus distribution, mail bombing, ping attacks, and the other
ways in which people are harassing the Internet?"
His motivation was simple.
"It's obvious that criminal use on the Internet is becoming more and
more of a problem," Palme said.
[...]
For example, Scott Bradner, a senior technical consultant at Harvard
University, spoke at G8 and came away less than impressed with the
level of discussion.
"There was not a small amount of misunderstanding about how the
Internet works," Bradner said. "A lot of the speakers didn't have a
clue."
Added Steven Bellovin, a network security researcher at AT&T who also
has participated in the email debate: "There's a serious
misunderstanding in many of the governments of the world in what you
can and can't do on the Internet."
[...]
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