At 11:56 2/7/2000 -0800, Kerry L. Bonin wrote:
>Didn't see this here yet, so:
>
>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-iab-raven-00.txt
>
>
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34055,00.html
Thumbs Down on Net Wiretaps
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3:00 a.m. 3.Feb.2000 PST
WASHINGTON -- It took four months, a
grim debate, and thousands of mailing list
messages, but the group that sets
Internet standards has decided not to
support wiretapping.
The executive committees of the Internet
Engineering Task Force dismissed the idea
with characteristic understatement,
saying they would not "consider
requirements for wiretapping" in
protocols.
The 15 KB draft document released this
week caps an unusually public debate
inside IETF that was marked by an FBI
call to permit wiretaps, Congressional
condemnation of the idea, and a
flame-ridden mailing list called "raven"
that lived up to its homophonous name.
But in the end, most members of the
loose-knit group that met here in
November opposed the idea, and the
draft written by the Internet Architecture
Board and the Internet Engineering
Steering Group is the result.
[...]
