Re: Hashed URIs from Keith Moore on 2002-11-26 (uri@w3.org from November 2002)

From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:32:28 -0500
To: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
cc: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>, discuss@apps.ietf.org, uri@w3.org
Message-Id: <200211262032.gAQKWSl22456@astro.cs.utk.edu>

> This work was originally done for ICRA <http://www.icra.org>. The ICRAsafe
> filtering software available from them - among other things - blocks access
> to URLs that are on "black lists". Organisations want to be able to publish
> such lists without letting people use them to find "unsuitable" (in the
> opinion of the person producing the list) material.
> 
> As such, it has been implemented.

I would *really* hate to see either the RFC series or IETF used to promote 
censorware. 

Keith

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