Rob Carlson is a Linux geek and open-source type who is pretty cypherpunkly, as things go. Had dinner with him and some other DC folks this evening. I think you're right about chefren. -Declan On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:58:03AM +0000, jmalcolm@uraeus.com wrote:
If my memory is correct, chefren was the chief proponent of building in surveillance technologies on the IETF RAVEN list, which was chartered to decide the response of the IETF to government requests in that regard. (More or less - my memory isn't exact on the wording.) The resultant discussions were rather heated and quickly went nowhere, which didn't stop chefren from singlehandedly trying to make others see the error of their ways.
So the forwarded message is not particularly surprising.
(I don't know "Rob Carlson".)