[liberationtech] /. ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection

[Peter Gutmann]

Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> forwards:

>To be frank, I have been trying to find out what the fuss has been about
>regarding this standard and come up.. not blank, as it _is_ worrying that ITU
>is spending time on this shit, but at least I haven't found anything to
>inspire the absolutely massive shitstorm I have been seeing in certain places
>(e.g. /.). Is it just because it's the ITU doing it rather than, say, ISO or
>ANSI?

Yes.  In the current climate if the ITU tried to standardise ponies, people
would find reasons why ponies are evil.

Peter.