[lacnog] Fwd: [IP] EFF calls for signatures from Internet Engineers against censorship

Mie Dic 14 12:37:14 BRST 2011

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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Arturo Servin <arturo.servin en gmail.com>wrote:

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> Begin forwarded message:
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> *From: *"Eggert, Lars" <lars en netapp.com>
> *Date: *14 December 2011 02:11:32 GMT-02:00
> *To: *"ietf en ietf.org" <ietf en ietf.org>
> *Subject: **Fwd: [IP] EFF calls for signatures from Internet Engineers
> against censorship*
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Dave Farber <dave en farber.net>
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> Subject: [IP] EFF calls for signatures from Internet Engineers against
> censorship
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> Date: December 14, 2011 4:12:20 GMT+02:00
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> To: ip <ip en listbox.com>
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> Reply-To: <dave en farber.net>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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> From: Peter Eckersley
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> Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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> Subject: EFF call for signatures from Internet Engineers against censorship
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> To: David Farber <dave en farber.net>
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> (For the IP list)
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> Last year, EFF organized an open letter against Internet censorship
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> legislation being considered by the US Senate
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> (https://eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/open-letter).  Along with other
> activists
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> efforts, we successfully delayed that proposal, but need to update the
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> letter
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> for two bills, SOPA and PIPA, that are close to passing through US Congress
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> now.
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> If you would like to sign, please email me at pde en eff.org, with a one-line
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> summary of what part of the Internet you helped to helped to design,
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> implement, debug or run.
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> We need signatures by 8am GMT on Thursday (midnight Wednesday US Pacific,
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> 3am
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> US Eastern).  Also feel free to forward this to colleagues who played a
> role
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> in designing and building the network.
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> The updated letter's text is below:
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> We, the undersigned, have played various parts in building a network called
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> the Internet. We wrote and debugged the software; we defined the standards
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> and protocols that talk over that network. Many of us invented parts of it.
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> We're just a little proud of the social and economic benefits that our
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> project, the Internet, has brought with it.
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> Last year, many of us wrote to you and your colleagues to warn about the
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> proposed "COICA" copyright and censorship legislation.  Today, we are
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> writing again to reiterate our concerns about the SOPA and PIPA derivatives
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> of last year's bill, that are under consideration in the House and Senate.
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> In many respects, these proposals are worse than the one we were alarmed to
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> read last year.
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> If enacted, either of these bills will create an environment of tremendous
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> fear and uncertainty for technological innovation, and seriously harm the
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> credibility of the United States in its role as a steward of key Internet
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> infrastructure. Regardless of recent amendments to SOPA, both bills will
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> risk fragmenting the Internet's global domain name system (DNS) and have
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> other capricious technical consequences.  In exchange for this, such
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> legislation would engender censorship that will simultaneously be
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> circumvented by deliberate infringers while hampering innocent parties'
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> right and ability to communicate and express themselves online.
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>
> All censorship schemes impact speech beyond the category they were intended
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> to restrict, but these bills are particularly egregious in that regard
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> because they cause entire domains to vanish from the Web, not just
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> infringing pages or files.  Worse, an incredible range of useful,
>
> law-abiding sites can be blacklisted under these proposals.  In fact, it
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> seems that this has already begun to happen under the nascent DHS/ICE
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> seizures program.
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> Censorship of Internet infrastructure will inevitably cause network errors
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> and security problems.  This is true in China, Iran and other countries
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> that
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> censor the network today; it will be just as true of American censorship.
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> It is also true regardless of whether censorship is implemented via the
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> DNS,
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> proxies, firewalls, or any other method.  Types of network errors and
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> insecurity that we wrestle with today will become more widespread, and will
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> affect sites other than those blacklisted by the American government.
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> The current bills -- SOPA explicitly and PIPA implicitly -- also threaten
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> engineers who build Internet systems or offer services that are not readily
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> and automatically compliant with censorship actions by the U.S. government.
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> When we designed the Internet the first time, our priorities were
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> reliability, robustness and minimizing central points of failure or
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> control.
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> We are alarmed that Congress is so close to mandating censorship-compliance
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> as a design requirement for new Internet innovations.  This can only damage
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> the security of the network, and give authoritarian governments more power
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> over what their citizens can read and publish.
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>
> The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open
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> Internet, both domestically and abroad.  We cannot have a free and open
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> Internet unless its naming and routing systems sit above the political
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> concerns and objectives of any one government or industry. To date, the
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> leading role the US has played in this infrastructure has been fairly
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> uncontroversial because America is seen as a trustworthy arbiter and a
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> neutral bastion of free expression. If the US begins to use its
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> central in the network for censorship that advances its political and
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> economic agenda, the consequences will be far-reaching and destructive.
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> Senators, Congressmen, we believe the Internet is too important and too
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> valuable to be endangered in this way, and implore you to put these bills
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> aside.
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>
> --
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> Peter Eckersley                            pde en eff.org
>
> Technology Projects Director      Tel  +1 415 436 9333 x131
>
> Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993
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