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FC: Declan's Capitol Letters (privacy, gop.gov, wiretapping, etc.)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 11:37:51 -0400
[Here's my weekly column. Stuff this week includes conservative-libertarian split on privacy, more on IETF and wiretapping, digital signatures. I was busy yesterday so I also borrowed from what I sent out on politech. --DBM] http://www.wired.com/news/print/1,1294,32057,00.html WHOOPS.GOV: Last week we told you about a new Republican Web site called -- what else? -- gop.gov. Well, it turns out that the House Republican Conference site could be called a lot of other things instead. And, according to the rules controlling government Web sites, it probably should be. The Federal Networking Council-drafted document says, "The .GOV domain is for registration of US governmental entities on the federal level only ... Subsidiary, non-autonomous components of top-level or other entities are not eligible for separate registration." Translation: Register gop.house.gov instead. Besides, some veteran Internet types wonder, if the GOP can grab GOP.gov, what about the socialists, libertarians, and greens? "As a Libertarian I am a firm believer in self-government," says John Gilmore, board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Can the Libertarian Party, one of the GOP's peers and rivals, register SELF.GOV?" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to majordomo () vorlon mit edu with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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