re Introducing the Internet Bill of Rights

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Joe Touch <touch () strayalpha com>
> Date: October 6, 2018 13:28:28 JST
> To: David Jack Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Introducing the Internet Bill of Rights
>
> Hi, Dave,
>
> Regarding:
> > > https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/ro-khanna-internet-bill-of-rights.html
>
> The list proposed in this op-ed focuses on personal information and consumer rights (as customers of any service), 
> but not really much about the Internet per se. It even fails to capitalize the word properly, as is needed to 
> distinguish the Internet from an internet, the latter being a network using the Internet protocols but not 
> interconnected to the global Internet.
>
> As noted just this past week on the Internet-history mailing list, I had proposed such a list in 2004 at a meeting 
> entitled “Preventing the Internet Meltdown” here in LA that addresses the actual Internet rights themselves. Here it 
> is below. The issue is that the rights below are needed to allow users to be first-class participants on the 
> Internet, running their own servers and negotiating protocols with peers at their discretion, rather than that of the 
> network operators. 
>
> Without the list below, I would claim that providers may be selling “access to Internet information”, but not 
> Internet access. It’s the difference between being allowed access to a library vs. being able to write your own books 
> and contact authors directly.
>
> Joe
>
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>
> Internet User “Bill of Rights”
> Joe Touch, 2004
> The Internet is an association of communicating parties. Consenting parties should be able to communicate in an 
> unrestricted fashion, insofar as they do not impinge on the corresponding rights of other parties. The following is a 
> list of specific rights to that end:
>
> 1. REAL IP: Users have the right to a real IP address, routable from anywhere on the Internet.
>
> 2. REAL DNS (& REVERSE-DNS): Users have the right to a valid reverse DNS name for that IP address, and the forward 
> lookup of that name that matches that address.
>
> 3. RECEIVE ANY: Users have the right to receive any valid IP packet, using any valid transport protocol on any valid 
> port (if applicable), up to the limits of their local resources and network connection.
>
> 4. SEND ANY: Users have the right to send any valid IP packet to any valid real IP address, using any transport 
> protocol, on any valid port (if applicable), provided it uses an inconsequential amount of resources of the network 
> and potential receiver until mutual consent is established.
>
> 5. ENFORCEMENT: Users have the right to know the ISP responsible for traffic from any valid IP address, sufficient to 
> register a complaint regarding violations of any of these rules. 
>
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