Richard, as already said (did you miss part of my email?), nobody is suggesting to go break the law in foreign countries. The IETF charters working groups to address very technical problems, conscious that sometimes, somewhere, such technologies could have legal implications. I suppose nobody disagrees that what the IETF has done in the security and VoIP fields has been beneficial to a broad community, even if in some parts of the world some of those technologies may be even considered illegal.
Enrico Richard Bennett wrote: > Not to be too flip about it, but It's not clear to me that helping > people break the law falls in the scope of the requirements for this > working group or of the IETF in general. > > RB > > Enrico Marocco wrote: >> DePriest, Greg (NBC Universal) wrote: >> >>> "That's unacceptable for certain applications." >>> >>> I'm confused: Can you provide a few examples of such applications? >>> >> >> Skype, in countries where VoIP (or some encryption algorithms, or >> anything else skype does) is illegal. Of course nobody is suggesting to >> go break laws in foreign countries, but there is a strong understanding >> that in this field in particular and in life in general privacy is >> essential. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> alto mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto >> > > -- > Richard Bennett
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