http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ en-us karl@cavebear.com 2010-03-15T02:51:38-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000342.html 342@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Internet Technology 2010-03-15T02:51:38-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000341.html 341@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Law, Society, and Policy 2009-12-24T02:07:17-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000340.html Some ideas for epitaphs for the internet era: Her FIN has been ACKed. He's now a higher level abstraction. She has moved up the protocol stack. He is now a perfect packet traversing a loop free path of celestial ASN's. She has gone to the ultimate peering point. Her TTL went to zero.... 340@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Apropos of Nothing 2009-12-10T01:49:42-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000339.html The copyright-forever crowd is once again trying to turn copyright into a card that trumps civil liberties, due process, and Constitutional limitations. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that is being "secretly" negotiated by the US and other nations would require signatory nations to impose a regime similar to the US DMCA, including Digital "Rights" Management (DRM) anti-cirumvention. Under the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8) the United States can only create copyright rights if those rights are constrained to exist only for "limited times". DRM lasts forever. DRM will make it difficult, often impossible, to make use of materials once the copyright term expires and the material enters the public domain. DRM creates a perpetual right to prevent copying - a perpetual copyright. And DRM will make it difficult, often impossible, for historians and archivists of the future to examine materials even long past the expiration of... 339@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Law, Society, and Policy 2009-12-05T17:08:19-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000338.html 338@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Law, Society, and Policy 2009-11-13T21:54:36-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000337.html 337@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Technical Information 2009-07-06T15:10:08-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000336.html 336@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Law, Society, and Policy 2008-06-01T17:33:53-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000335.html 335@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Internet Technology 2008-05-27T01:00:45-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000334.html 334@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Life 2008-05-27T00:58:42-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000333.html 333@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Internet Technology 2008-04-21T16:03:47-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000332.html My comments to NTIA on "The Continued Transition of the Technical Coordination and Management of the Internet's Domain Name and Addressing System: Midterm Review of the Joint Project Agreement" are now online at http://www.cavebear.com/archive/public/ntia-jpa-2008.html... 332@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Internet Governance 2008-02-06T17:43:08-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000331.html 331@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Internet Governance 2008-01-28T00:29:10-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000330.html 330@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Life 2007-11-01T21:25:31-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000329.html 329@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Internet Governance 2007-10-29T15:40:12-08:00 http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000328.html 328@http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ Internet Governance 2007-10-27T23:27:48-08:00