>From the link you posted in the subject line: <http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/diffuse/>
> potential new applications include characterising traffic for Lawful Interception, Translation: We'll help you become Big Brother while avoiding pesky ACLU lawsuits. > automated market research Translation: We'll help you become Stef Murky. > or automated prioritisation of real-time traffic. Translation: We'll help you create this future: http://i.imgur.com/5RrWm.png I'm "impressed" by how all of their suggested applications are basically Evil. Incidentally, their proposed "solution" to these "problems" requires a degree of data retention. <http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Data_Retention> (The fact that pf et alia "tightly couple the flow classification and treatment" is contrasted with their desire to accomplish "de-coupling of flow classification and treatment".) :-/

