- From: Kjetil Kjernsmo <Kjetil.Kjernsmo@computas.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:02:35 +0200
- To: Katie Haritos-Shea <ryladog@earthlink.net>
- Cc: public-egov-ig@w3.org
On Wednesday 25 June 2008 07:47:35 Robin Berjon wrote: > On Jun 24, 2008, at 15:48 , Katie Haritos-Shea wrote: > > Note that many government (and governement located) folks when > > attending the calls during work hours may not be able to use IRC due > > to access restriction and firewall issues. > > For some reason I can't seem to locate it right now, but somewhere on > the W3C website is a Web interface to IRC that works behind firewalls, > Jose probably knows where it is (I think it's linked to from > http://www.w3.org/Project/IRC/ but I don't have access to that page). Also note that there are IRC proxies, such as dircproxy [1], that some system administrators may find easier to live with as it gives them a central point of control. I personally think that blocking IRC gives no tangible security benefit, but I'm living with this solution myself. [1] http://dircproxy.securiweb.net/ Kind regards Kjetil Kjernsmo -- Senior Knowledge Engineer Direct: +47 6783 1136 | Mobile: +47 986 48 234 Email: kjetil.kjernsmo@computas.com Web: http://www.computas.com/ | SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE | Computas AS Vollsveien 9, PO Box 482, N-1327 Lysaker | Phone:+47 6783 1000 | Fax:+47 6783 1001
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