That seems like a constructive suggestion. Thank you. I do have one question regarding policies.
Why is protecting privacy a requirement and protecting copyrighted content a policy? -----Original Message----- From: Richard Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:43 PM To: Nicholas Weaver Cc: DePriest, Greg (NBC Universal); [email protected]; Arnaud Legout; Paul Jessop; Craig Seidel; Le Blond, Stevens Subject: Re: [alto] Paper on "Pushing BitTorrent Locality to the Limit" It strikes me that the discovery of illegal content is a local policy decision. There are jurisdictions that require it and those that forbid it. Perhaps ALTO needs to support a policy option that allows content descriptors to be queried, blocked, or redirected in the interest of local laws and regulations. I don't want to spoil anybody's fun, of course. RB Nicholas Weaver wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2008, at 1:15 PM, DePriest, Greg (NBC Universal) wrote: > >> You note that "A localization service doesn't have to discriminate >> [between legit and illegit P2P]..." >> >> I don't understand why it wouldn't. >> >> What's the point of facilitating the illegal distribution of copyrighted >> content? >> >> And how would one justify that? > > Under the same justification that you allow BitTorrent at all: You > DON'T know that it is copyrighted, it could be Linux ISOs, with enough > probability that you can't just block the protocol and you can't sue > BitTorrent Inc into submission under the Napster and related methods. > > Or that you allow HTTP traffic, after all, that could be copyrighted > material, kiddie porn, or other bad content. > > It is not the responsibility of the network to police content, and a > localization service doesn't actually have to know what it is > localizing, so it is not in a position to police content one way or > the other. > > EG, ask localization service "Who else is accessing 512b-random-ID > SHA-512 file descriptor", and the localization service has no notion > what the resource is, just a list of who's accessing it. Its in many > ways easier to make a localization service which is agnostic. > > _______________________________________________ > alto mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto -- Richard Bennett _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
