This is an Internet Draft. Internet Drafts are the working documents of the IETF - some become standards most don't.
The IETF allows anyone to publish an Internet Draft. This is an 'individual draft' - produced by an individual, and not an IETF working group. So it's a bit disingenuous to say that the "IETF Opens Draft Version of Updated SSH for Public Review" as the linked article does. (And as noted, in other comments, this document is more about operational best practice than changes to protocol standards anyway.)
Unless this is picked up by an IETF working group then it can't be a standard - the independent RFC submission track only allows the resultant RFCs to classed as Informational or Experimental.
I'm not sure where "final version of the standard is expected in October" comes from. It isn't what "Expires: October 06, 2013" means on the draft. (All Internet Drafts expire after 6 months.)
"Because it is no different surfing the net with the iphone displaying the data or your laptop displaying the data."
I'm not sure I fully agree with that statement. Your behaviour is likely to differ between iPhone usage and what you do on your laptop. e.g. on your laptop you're more likely to exchange large documents via e-mail, download Windows updates, etc.
There will be some concept of what an "average" user does and their current tariffs will be priced accordingly. Changing the device being used is likely to change the assumptions.
Controversial suggestion: maybe what you want is a capped usage tariff that can be shared between iPhone and tethered devices, rather the current "all you can eat"....
In this case "BT" actually means "BT wholesale", so the issue applies to any ISP which uses BT's DSL platform. This includes both AAISP (the ISP in the linked article) and Entanet (resold by various other ISPs), the only two UK ISPs I know of who offer native IPv6 over DSL.
2. The more sinister "big brother" research agencies (think: The Economic League), the kind that will stop you getting a managerial job at a FTSE-100 company because you once attended a protest march at college, keep everything controversial on paper, to which the DPA doesn't apply, and only store basic index data electronically - it makes their work a lot harder but when they charge a couple of grand a go it doesn't matter.
The Data Protection Act 1998 does apply to paper based records. This was one of the changes over the 1984 Act.
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Voting from home also brings the problem of whether you trust the computer you are casting your vote from. The possibility of someone writing a virus/trojan that alters your vote is clear.
Yes, Nicko van Someren demonstrated this in the rump session at the 3rd International Information Hiding Workshop back in September. He showed a CGI program running on a web server being used to find the private key used by that server. This works if you can run a CGI script as the same user as the server (ie. with access to the memory of the server).
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This is an Internet Draft. Internet Drafts are the working documents of the IETF - some become standards most don't.
The IETF allows anyone to publish an Internet Draft. This is an 'individual draft' - produced by an individual, and not an IETF working group. So it's a bit disingenuous to say that the "IETF Opens Draft Version of Updated SSH for Public Review" as the linked article does. (And as noted, in other comments, this document is more about operational best practice than changes to protocol standards anyway.)
Unless this is picked up by an IETF working group then it can't be a standard - the independent RFC submission track only allows the resultant RFCs to classed as Informational or Experimental.
I'm not sure where "final version of the standard is expected in October" comes from. It isn't what "Expires: October 06, 2013" means on the draft. (All Internet Drafts expire after 6 months.)
I prefer their UK word of the year: omnishambles.
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/11/uk-word-of-the-year-2012/
"Because it is no different surfing the net with the iphone displaying the data or your laptop displaying the data."
I'm not sure I fully agree with that statement. Your behaviour is likely to differ between iPhone usage and what you do on your laptop. e.g. on your laptop you're more likely to exchange large documents via e-mail, download Windows updates, etc.
There will be some concept of what an "average" user does and their current tariffs will be priced accordingly. Changing the device being used is likely to change the assumptions.
Controversial suggestion: maybe what you want is a capped usage tariff that can be shared between iPhone and tethered devices, rather the current "all you can eat"....
O2 in the UK will be supporting tethering on the iPhone as an add on to their contracts.
Contracts start at 29.38 GBP (approx 48 USD) for an 18 month contract. Tethering starts at 14.68 GBP (approx 24 USD) extra for a 3GB package.
Details at: http://shop.o2.co.uk/update/internet.html
Except for the bouncing Google logo you get on the IPv6 version.
In this case "BT" actually means "BT wholesale", so the issue applies to any ISP which uses BT's DSL platform. This includes both AAISP (the ISP in the linked article) and Entanet (resold by various other ISPs), the only two UK ISPs I know of who offer native IPv6 over DSL.
Nope. This isn't a problem with CPE support for IPv6, it's a problem in BT's network.
There's some more information in this discussion thread:
http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=btsupplier&Number=3448119&page=1&view=expanded&sb=5&o=0&fpart=
The Data Protection Act 1998 does apply to paper based records. This was one of the changes over the 1984 Act.
Voting from home also brings the problem of whether you trust the computer you are casting your vote from. The possibility of someone writing a virus/trojan that alters your vote is clear.
Yes, Nicko van Someren demonstrated this in the rump session at the 3rd International Information Hiding Workshop back in September. He showed a CGI program running on a web server being used to find the private key used by that server. This works if you can run a CGI script as the same user as the server (ie. with access to the memory of the server).
Adi Shamir has not published this paper yet. It is being presented at Eurocrypt on Tuesday.