[ga] Re: net neutrality

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 05:26:02PM +0100,
 JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 100 lines which said:

> IETF, IESG, and IAB formally refused to include a warning in the
> security section about it.

Pure lie. RFC 4646 Security Considerations section says:

   Language tags used in content negotiation, like any other information
   exchanged on the Internet, might be a source of concern because they
   might be used to infer the nationality of the sender, and thus
   identify potential targets for surveillance.

   This is a special case of the general problem that anything sent is
   visible to the receiving party and possibly to third parties as well.
   It is useful to be aware that such concerns can exist in some cases.

   The evaluation of the exact magnitude of the threat, and any possible
   countermeasures, is left to each application protocol (see BCP 72
   [RFC3552] for best current practice guidance on security threats and
   defenses).