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Why FOISA Should Never Become Law

• Comment posted Apr 18, 2004 10:55 am PDT — by Peter Bachman
  I agree, this is bad law. Certainly privacy matters, and the original RFC for email states you should have a valid email address for postmaster. That's known as "acting in role as", and should always go to someone who reads…

An Interview with the Lead Developer of SPF - Part II

• Comment posted Aug 23, 2004 4:59 am PDT — by Peter Bachman
  Conceptually I can see why it might seem that are no applicable examples of globally secure/centralized systems. There are many, and they exhibit differing degrees of centrality, and often redundancy. Sometimes they are "virtually" central, but in fact distributed. Talking…

• Comment posted Aug 19, 2004 7:17 pm PDT — by Peter Bachman
  I have a small lab where I do development for the c=US national directory and identity management project. Of course, having my SMTP email address out there for years has caused no lack of joe jobbery taking place, so I…

Internet to ITU: Stay Away from My Network

• Comment posted Dec 26, 2004 6:39 am PST — by Peter Bachman
  One bug fix? There are no silver bullets. We all know that. It should not be surprising that PSTNS are using IP and that a convergence is taking place. This has been happening for a while now. However, that doesn't…

Protecting the Internet: Certified Attachments and Reverse Firewalls?

• Comment posted Apr 01, 2005 6:03 am PST — by Peter Bachman
  Worth reading.... http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/ppt/ispsecure.pdf -pb

If It's About to Break, Fix It!

• Comment posted Oct 10, 2005 3:00 pm PDT — by Peter Bachman
  Sorry I did not provide the reference Ian. Document WSIS-II/PC-3/CONTR/035-E "COMMENTS ON THE REPORT OF THE WGIG" United States of America dated August 17, 2005 "Comments of the United States of America on Internet Governance" http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.html Generally the entire text…

• Comment posted Oct 10, 2005 3:37 am PDT — by Peter Bachman
  The official comments below: "it is important that the global community recognize that the existing structures have worked effectively to make the Internet the highly robust and geographically diverse medium that it is today. The security and stability of the…

Questioning the Illusion of Internet Governance

• Comment posted Nov 13, 2005 1:13 pm PST — by Peter Bachman
  According to my sources in the State department, at the WSIS the country of Elbonia is planning to take over the "gopher" protocol! This could spell potential disaster in Minnesota, whose IT infrastructure barely survived a tremendous whack on the…