Hi list, Nick from techPresident here. If I could tap into your hive-mind intelligence for a moment to help me be more precise about explaining why this is an issue, I would appreciate it ...
Governments, intelligence organizations and assorted nogoodniks already use deep-packet inspection, so the declaration of a standard for DPI comes off as vaguely Orwellian but not news. I'm searching for a way to explain the privacy-advocate position on this is both accurately and concisely. The sense I get from CDT's blog post is that there are three reasons why this is more than just creepy in principle: 1. The standard outlines ways that, in the ITU's view, ISPs should structure their operations so that highly invasive surveillance can function; 2. Under current governance, this standard could be as widely ignored as the <blink> tag, but ISPs could be forced to comply if the ITU becomes a must-follow standards-making body for the Internet — meaning all traffic in every ITU member state, in this extreme example, would be vulnerable by design; 3. On principle, IETF and W3C don't address standards for surveillance, highlighting another way the ITU is ideologically removed from the way the Internet is now governed. Am I on target here? On Dec 5, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Cynthia Wong wrote: > The final version of the standard should show up here... eventually: > > http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/publications/Pages/latest.aspx > > http://www.itu.int/dms_pages/itu-t/rec/T-REC-RSS.xml > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Asher Wolf > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 7:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [liberationtech] /. ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection > > From http://committee.tta.or.kr : > Revision of Y.2770 Requirements for #DPI in Next Generation Networks > http://bit.ly/Yx0Sya (via @BetweenMyths) > > On 5/12/12 9:25 PM, Andre Rebentisch wrote: >> Am 05.12.2012 10:27, schrieb Eugen Leitl: >>> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/12/05/0115214/itu-approves-deep-pack >>> et-inspection >>> >>> >>> ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection >>> >>> Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 04, @08:19PM >>> >>> from the inspect-my-encryption-all-you'd-like dept. >>> >>> dsinc sends this quote from Techdirt about the International >>> Telecommunications Union's ongoing conference in Dubai that will have >>> an effect on the internet everywhere: >> The WCIT is a "diplomatic conference" for the rules governing the ITU, >> the ITRs. It seems wrong to mix that with ongoing specific >> standardisation work of the ITU. >> >> Anyway, interesting discussions over at circleid.com: >> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121203_wcit_off_to_a_flying_start/ >> Apparently ITU fellows are disgruntled that they cannot control the >> media coverage and complain about all the "misinformation". >> >> Best, >> André >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
