At 20.39 -0400 0-05-04, Keith Moore wrote:
but sooner or later folks are going to be held liable for poor engineering
or poor implementation of networking software, just like folks today can be
held liable for poor engineering or implementation of bridges or buildings.
This discussion is highly relevant to the IETF list, if we
discuss the problems and how to overcome them, and avoid
the never-ending platform war discussions.
At the IETF meeting in December 1999, the issue was
discussed whether IETF should support changes in protocols
which would make it easier to find villains committing
crime on the net. This was discussed in a large plenary
meeting, with about a thousand people present. A very large
majority, something like 95 or 98 percent of those present,
voted against this. I was one of the few who voted yes.
All of you who voted against designing Internet protocols
so as to help police finding the villain of criminal
net-behavour: Have you not changed your mind? Should we not
try to find and prosecute the people distributing viruses?
Should we not redesign the Internet, so that this becomes
easier, for example by doing more logging in the routers,
so that you can go back and check from where something
illegal came. Or do you mean that this is impossible,
because the villains will just get more clever and learn to
cheat such procedures?
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Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/