[CrackMonkey] [suse-security] 4 February 2000 IETF Excludes Wiretapping (fwd)

[Seth David Schoen]

George J.P. Perry writes:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:06:00 -0500
> From: Fred A. Miller <fm at cupserv.org>
> To: SuSE Security <suse-security at suse.com>
> Subject: [suse-security] 4 February 2000  IETF Excludes Wiretapping
> 
> GOOD NEWS!!
> 
> Fred
> ____________________________
> 
> 4 February 2000  IETF Excludes Wiretapping
> The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has voted

The IETF doesn't vote, or at least makes a pretty good show of pretending
not to vote.

> against incorporating
> wiretapping capabilities into the next generation of Internet protocols.

Not without acrimony.

There's nothing like an issue in practical ethics to bring out what people
_really_ disagree about.  Wow.

... get a European radical democrat geek together with a couple of
American Republican geeks to talk about "the proper role of the State
in determining technical standards" and watch the fireworks!

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