- From: Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:05:16 -0700
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>, David Sheets <kosmo.zb@gmail.com>, Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, Public TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>
Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > > It is is counterproductive to say that technology and policy should > be discussed in different fora. > +1 > > Should ideally it be illegal to cache things against the > content-owner's wishes, then? > Not on a public network? Also, the wording would be tricky -- think Wayback Machine, blatantly disregarding cache expiration values. Which could be considered against the content-publisher's wishes. > > Should it be illegal for an ISP to inject anything (like javascript) > of any sort into anything (like http: HTML pages) ? > The problem is that isn't always nefarious. People sign up for ISPs who offer free access in exchange for injected advertising. It would be like legislating against video-hosting services because some content is pirated. -Eric
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