On Tue 01/Jan/2013 09:31:28 +0100 Brian E Carpenter wrote:
** CCITT document D.1. The 1988 version includes the restrictions on
use of leased lines:
http://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-D.1-198811-S!!PDF-E&type=items
The 1991 version is much less restrictive, but it remains the case that
interconnections are all "subject to national laws" and that is the basis
for all national limitations on the Internet today. Nevertheless, the 1991
revision of D.1 was absolutely essential for the Internet to grow
internationally.
Was D.1 to ease wire tapping? By example, I, as a mail server operator
who is not a telecom, am not required by my country's laws to provide an
instrumentation whereby authorized investigators can obtain a list of a
user's correspondents on the fly. Yet that kind of data is said to be
essential for police operations. OTOH, SMTP doesn't consider that kind
of facilities, and fashionable implementations don't provide them. What
am I missing?
Perhaps, as the old telephone system is fading away, the institutions
that founded it --local governments' branches-- should change their
mindset or just fade away as well... Should the IETF or other SDOs help
such transition?
On Sat 29/Dec/2012 07:26:56 +0100 Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
The old telephone system is fading away. It is becoming an Internet
application just as the pocket calculator has become a desktop
application. And as it passes, the institutions it founded are
looking for new roles. There is no particular reason that this must
happen.