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17 May 2017
It is not much of an exaggeration to say that
the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
of 1998 makes the Internet as we know it possible.
The DMCA created a safe harbor that protects online service providers from copyright suits so
long as the follow the DMCA rules.
One of the rules is that the provider has to register with the Copyright Office, to designate an agent
to whom copyright complaints can be sent.
The original process was rather klunky, send in a paper form that they scan into their database, along
with a check.
This year there is a new online systems, and as of December they will no longer provide the old paper
database.
So if you are a provider (run web servers, for example) and want to take advantage of the safe harbor,
you have to register or re-register.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/dmcareg.html
13 Apr 2017
M3AAWG is a trade association that brings together ISPs, hosting providers,
bulk mailers, and a lot of infrastructure vendors to discuss messaging abuse, malware,
and mobile abuse. (Those comprise the M3.) One of the things they do is publish
best practice documents for network and mail operators, including two recently published,
one on
Password Recommendations for Account Providers,
and another on Password Managers Usage Recommendations.
Since I'm one of M3's senior technical advisers, I helped write them, but I think they're pretty
good anyway.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/maawgpwd.html
01 Apr 2017
Human rights are a topic that came up several times at the IETF meeting that just ended.
There's a Human Rights Research Group that had a session with a bunch of short
presentations, and the featured two talks at the plenary asking Can Internet Protocols
Affect Human Rights? The second one, by David Clark of MIT was particularly good,
talking about "tussle" and how one has to design for it or else people
will work around you. You can watch
it here.
Although his talk was a lot better than most of the human rights stuff I've heard
in technical fora, the rest of the discussion had the same old problem:
true believers obsessing about a very narrow set of issues.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/userrights.html
02 Mar 2016
The US government is demanding Apple unlock iPhones in about a dozen
cases beside the San Bernardino one.
In a strikingly similar case, Judge James Orenstein
in Brooklyn rejected the government's request for three separate reasons.
In the decision
the judge refers several times to the San Bernardino case, and it
is clear he expects this decision to be an important precedent for that one.
In June 2014 the government arrested Jun Feng in Queens NY on drug charges and
confiscated his iPhone 5S.
Over a year later, in July 2015 got a warrant to search the phone and found that
it was locked. In October they filed a proposed order under the 1789 All Writs
Act (AWA) to have Apple unlock the phone.
It appears that Apple initially cooperated and suggested some of the language in
the proposed order, but if so they changed their minds and opposed it.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/nyapple.html
02 Jan 2016
The Domain Name System is now over 25 years old.
Since the publication of RFCs 1034 and 1035 in 1987, there have been over 100
RFC documents published that extend and clarify the original DNS specs.
Although the basic design of the DNS hasn't changed, its definition is now
extremely complex, enough so that it's a challenging task to tell whether
a DNS package correctly implements the specs.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/dnsconform.html
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