Re: New Version Notification for draft-tbray-http-legally-restricted-status-00.txt

On 14/06/2012, at 1:20 AM, Tim Bray wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> 
> If the client retries the request, it might indeed work again -- depending on what network path they're using, etc. That's why all of the intermediation-focused errors are in 5xx.
> 
> Hm?  Surely the expectation would be the opposite; legislative/legal changes typically have timeframes measured in years or at the quickest months.   -T

VPNs. Proxies. Airplanes. Tor.

Living in the non-US* makes it blindingly obvious that geolocation schemes, network border controls, etc. are extremely porous; the Internet works around them.

Cheers,

* Canada doesn't count; /me ducks


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Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/

Received on Wednesday, 13 June 2012 22:00:09 UTC