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CCDP (Was: April fools joke?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec Muffett)
Sun Apr 1 10:54:49 2012
From: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CB9DDE10.2B077%lists@mtin.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 15:54:10 +0100
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1 Apr 2012, at 15:30, Justin Wilson wrote:
> I hate April 1 on the Web. You are right you never can tell. I =
would be
> appalled if someone as respectable as the BBC stoops to downright dumb
> pranks.
It is true. =20
It's called the Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) =
and is comprehensively discussed at the OpenRightsGroup* wiki:
=
http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Communications_Capabilities_Developme=
nt_Programme
...and somewhat less comprehensively at:
=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Capabilities_Development_Progr=
amme
See also ZDNet from February, in case you think it's still an April 1st =
joke:
=
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2012/02/20/isps-kept-in-dark-=
about-uks-plans-to-intercept-twitter-40095083/
- alec
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* disclosure: I help out with ORG in an unpaid capacity
