It's a pretty shocking development. It's one thing to nobble a single network under the IP Act to interfere with equipment but to use a neutral exchange to nobble shared infrastructure used across US and UK and ... is a completely different can of worms.
I don't exercise a vote anymore at LINX but I do hope members will pause and consider this very carefully indeed. Christian > Brandon Butterworth <mailto:bran...@rd.bbc.co.uk> > 17 February 2017 at 17:38 > On Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 05:19:32PM +0000, William Waites wrote: >> So instead of saying, "we have this new spying law in the UK and we need >> to rejigg the decision-making at LINX so we will be ready in case we are >> required to do something that must be kept secret" > > Yes but "hey government, swivel on this" isn't going to be an > effective secret weapon, they'll neutralise it before you use it > >> what was proposed to >> the membership was, "we have embarked on this long governance journey >> and this is what we have come up with as the best way to run LINX". Those >> are two very different propositions > > A big winking eye emoji was needed > > brandon > William Waites <mailto:wwai...@tardis.ed.ac.uk> > 17 February 2017 at 17:19 >> On Feb 17, 2017, at 16:46, Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net> wrote: >> >> There is one problem: The article is factually incorrect on multiple points. > > It would be interesting to know what points those are, it reads mostly > accurately > to me. > >> The proposed constitutional changes are in the public domain. > > The main problem, though this point may have gotten lost in the very long > discussion on the LINX members list, is that the reasoning and motivation for > the changes was not made clear. Even when explanatory materials were > belatedly provided, they weren’t especially clear. > > So instead of saying, "we have this new spying law in the UK and we need > to rejigg the decision-making at LINX so we will be ready in case we are > required to do something that must be kept secret" what was proposed to > the membership was, "we have embarked on this long governance journey > and this is what we have come up with as the best way to run LINX". Those > are two very different propositions, especially for busy people who don’t have > time to read in detail and understand all the implications. > > All that I suggested is that the members be properly informed so that they > can make this choice with their eyes open. It is important to have this > discussion in the open, and explicitly mark the transition where Internet > Exchange Points re-organise themselves to accommodate spying laws and > gag orders. > > William Waites > Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science > School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh > Informatics Forum 5.38, 10 Crichton St. > Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, Scotland > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > -- Christian de Larrinaga FBCS, CITP, ------------------------- @ FirstHand ------------------------- +44 7989 386778 c...@firsthand.net -------------------------
