On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Bruce Perens <br...@perens.com> wrote:
>> I looked briefly over the U.S. law on this issue since 1927. I think I could >> make a pretty good case that the justifications in 47 CFR 97.1 and the right >> to listen implicit in the 1st amendment to the U.S. constitution imply a >> right to monitor Amateur communications. It should be obvious why that law was enacted: spies Long after the obvious reason has rotted away, there are still the issues of commercial abuse and the desire to keep things open or friendly. I sure don't see these issues as rights, even though they matter. > Though I do also wonder if arguing this is wise more generally: The > loss of relevance of the amateur service comes in part from a mismatch > between how people use communications technology today —as an > increasingly personal and intimate part of their lives— and the rules > and norms of amateur radio. I think the amateur rules and norms are > generally good for HF/VHF/UHF ... But for SHF+ the ham spectrum is > almost universally underutilized and between wide spectrum and spacial > reuse (due to the possibility of highly directional P2P signals) there > is technically a lot of potential to do things like have communities > further the public interest by building backbone infrastructure for > third party access to the Internet, coordinated by and in the spirit > of amateur communications— but the regs don't practically permit it. > At some day in the future we may need them to, or risk losing that > spectrum. It certainly is limiting that browsing the web is normally illegal due to https. Encryption happens automatically and silently. Lots of interesting protocols are defined in terms of IP. If you can usefully transmit IP, you can do so many more things. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Freetel-codec2 mailing list Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2
