September 28th, 2010
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An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the Senate Judiciary Committee
Announcement by Peter Eckersley
Today, 87 prominent Internet engineers sent a joint letter the US Senate Judiciary Committee, declaring their opposition to the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act" (COICA). The text of the letter is below.
Readers are encouraged to themselves write the Senate Judiciary Committee and ask them to reject this bill.
We, the undersigned, have played various parts in building a network called the Internet. We wrote and debugged the software; we defined the standards and protocols that talk over that network. Many of us invented parts of it. We're just a little proud of the social and economic benefits that our project, the Internet, has brought with it.
We are writing to oppose the Committee's proposed new Internet censorship and copyright bill. If enacted, this legislation will risk fragmenting the Internet's global domain name system (DNS), create an environment of tremendous fear and uncertainty for technological innovation, and seriously harm the credibility of the United States in its role as a steward of key Internet infrastructure. In exchange for this, the bill will introduce censorship that will simultaneously be circumvented by deliberate infringers while hampering innocent parties' ability to communicate.
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Senators, we believe the Internet is too important and too valuable to be endangered in this way, and implore you to put this bill aside.
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more:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/open-letterhttp://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/30/906506/-Internet-Engineers-tell-the-Senate-to-Back-Off!
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