[1468] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Child Pornography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth E. Rowe)
Mon Feb 12 12:42:07 1996
From: "Kenneth E. Rowe" <kerowe@aslan.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 08:00:05 -0600
In-Reply-To: kdunn@zsi.com (Kevin Dunn)
"Re: Child Pornography" (Feb 10, 7:12pm)
Reply-To: "Kenneth E. Rowe" <kerowe@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Feb 10, 7:12pm, Kevin Dunn wrote:
> Subject: Re: Child Pornography
> On Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:29:32 -0500 Buck1776@aol.com <?> wrote:
> >Somebody needs to do something about child pronography
> [Remainder deleted to save bandwidth.]
>
> While this is a serious issue to some people, it has no place
> on the www-security mailing list. According to the charter
> for the group, which you should have received when you subscribed,
> the purpose of the group is ...
[you're making an assumption which may not be true ... you don't have to
subscribe to a mailing list to send mail to it]
> "The www-security list is intended for the discussion of World Wide
> Web security proposals, enhancements and issues. This is the working
> list of the proposed IETF HTTP Security working group."
This fits the stated charter. Child Pornography is just one example of an
activity on the WWW that violates the laws of a particular nation, etc.
I would like to see a discussion of how we can help sort through these issues.
Using the Child Pornography email as an example: what existing Internet
mechanisms are available to deal with the issue? Are the current guidelines
for "incident response" sufficient for this?
On Feb 9, 1:54pm, Charlie_Kaufman/Iris.IRIS@iris.com wrote:
> Subject: Upcoming IETF Meeting
> We have a meeting scheduled during the upcoming IETF Wednesday March 6,
1-3PM.
> I assume the main agenda item will be resolving any issues blocking us from
> advancing the SHTTP spec. What else should be on the agenda?
I would suggest that this is an appropriate topic for the upcoming IETF
meeting.
Especially since this is an international issue (German gov't required many
newsgroups to be removed by an Internet provider, USA gov't passed new
legislation on telecommunications that impacts this area).
Personal observation: It never ceases to amaze me how many people Flame at
someone that expresses an opinion, especially when those people are advocates
for freedom of expression.
Ken.
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