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Network design and operations, not political agenda
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:15:20 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Tony Rutkowski <trutkowski () verisign com> Date: September 11, 2008 12:59:21 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Network design and operations, not political agenda A blog note was recently circulated alleging that an "An ITU study group is apparently considering a proposal for network traceback that includes the following among its rationales [quote on limiting political expression]." The allegation is not true. I personally helped facilitate the consideration and adoption of the work item at the April meeting of ITU-T Study Group 17 (security). Concerns relating both to effective network management and well as providing a means for international caller-ID were amalgamated to create a new work item shepherded by editors from the U.S., China, Japan, and Korea. The underlying requirements relate to network management, settlements, infrastructure protection, and law enforcement support that pretty much exist worldwide, and include ongoing proceedings and legislation in the U.S. Congress, the FCC, the European Commission, and others worldwide. Minimally, the work will pull together valuable information concerning techniques, platforms, and development needs. It has no normative stature. The international caller-ID capability would be a nice feature for telephony. The political motivation text was not part of any known ITU-T proposal and certainly not the one which I helped facilitate. Extensive searches for the source of the text have yet revealed nothing. --tony ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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