- From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 06:55:00 PDT
- To: Masinter Larry <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: "'URI'" <uri@bunyip.com>
>Should your set of security issues be folded into >draft-ietf-uri-urn-issues-00.txt? Yes, I think it should. (I'll need some guidance on what to do to help, as I have never done this before!) It would be very shortsighted of this group to not address how Internet traffic patterns will change in the future. I can see where much data and traffic would continue to be unencrypted and basically available to all and sundry (the current situation). For that case, the only security consideration might be authentication. However, there will be some subset of traffic that is designed to be opaque to everyone but the sender and receiver; not just military and intelligence folks, but buyers and sellers in the upcoming electronic markets of the Internet, as well as people who, for whatever reason, do not wish everyone to know their business. As significant intelligence could be gleaned from examination of a URN/URL resolution, there should be provisions made for this resolution to be opaque. ====================================================================== Mark Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN
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