Comments on: U.N. Attacks Internet Anonymity – VeriSign Lending a Hand?

By: Loan Modification

Loan Modification — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:36:11 +0000

It can be more realistic or truthful if those people caught in the act.

By: Tony Rutkowski

Tony Rutkowski — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:41:30 +0000

This entire story is fiction. There is no such ITU-T document.

The basis for work remains an array of documents and
work that is all directed at effecting source authentication
for an array of essential needs such as mitigating
DOS attacks and SPAM, effecting settlements, adding
consumer protection features, NSEP, and meeting legal
and regulatory requirements. Similar efforts have been
ongoing for decades.

The most significant effort in this area in the
ITU-T is actually Larry Roberts' specifications
for authenticated IP streams.

By: MikeRT

MikeRT — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:22:11 +0000

Even today, speech is really not anonymous online unless you try really hard. I have a hard time believing this plan will be easily implemented and effective for two reasons:

1) It'll probably require a lot of upgrades to infrastructure that many companies won't see a good reason to get, unless they come with future purchases.

2) Someone will still find a way to create an anonymous proxy.

By: Adam Thierer

Adam Thierer — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:53:08 +0000

Wow, that is scary stuff. Of course, there are probably a number of Attorneys General here in the U.S. salivating at the prospect of instituting such a system:

http://techliberation.com/2008/01/23/usa-today-...