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Re: ietf.org unaccessible for Tor users

2016-03-16 03:28:18
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So, the original email (~65 messages ago!) raised the issue that ietf.org
wasn't accessible over Tor because of the CAPTCHA.

29 emails ago Alec Muffett posted:
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/mzh5xox0WGE4_KDeyJC0RpxTceY

This said that CloudFlare treats Tor as a country, and you can twiddle the
knob to whitelist / decrease the threat level assigned to the Tor
"country".

I haven't seen anything discussing this - while the current round of beard
pulling provides me with much entertainment, perhaps we could *also*
discuss twiddling the knob or, more productively, see if the folk
responsible for keeping this running know about the knob? Presumably it
could be twiddled until / unless the *IETF* actually sees pain from Tor?

W

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:39 PM <lloyd(_dot_)wood(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> 
wrote:

The IETF is censoring gopher!
 Lloyd Wood lloyd(_dot_)wood(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk 
http://about.me/lloydwood


----- Original Message -----
From: Eliot Lear <lear(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>
To: Randy Bush <randy(_at_)psg(_dot_)com>
Cc: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca>; IETF Disgust List <
ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Wednesday, 16 March 2016, 18:32
Subject: Re: ietf.org unaccessible for Tor users




On 3/16/16 8:06 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
it is not ours to say what others should and should not read, or to
which they should have easier access. to do so is called censorship.

Nobody's prohibiting access to any of our public documents.  And as
someone pointed out elsewhere, if one wants to copy every last bit of
IETF documentation, they are able to do so and provide whatever access
they wish.  To my knowledge nobody else has raised the concern that that
the Tor people are raising, and so we are being asked to specifically
support Tor.  Fine.  That means we then need to consider the
benefit/harm of our actions regarding who precisely we are helping.  I
asked that question honestly without an answer, but with concerns.

Eliot