Steven M. Bellovin writes:
Right. On the other hand, the AP reports that a French-government
sponsored bill would bar anonymous posting to the net. For details,
see
http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500207446-500289602-501571097-0,00.html
But should the IETF be fighting this fight? Does the IETF send someone
to France in hopes of convincing politicians not to do this? Do we have
the most convincing tongues? The strength of the IETF is in technology.
Right now we don't even have enough resources to go back and update
RFCs with augmented notes stating how popular implementations differ
from spec.
BTW: I'm not intending to pick on Mr. Bellovin.
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