> Roy Thomas Fielding (born 1965) is an American computer scientist,[1] one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification, an authority on computer network

> Roy Thomas Fielding (born 1965) is an American computer scientist,[1] one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification, an authority on computer network architecture[2] and co-founder of the Apache HTTP Server project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fielding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fielding A good read, and he's not just blowing smoke. > If the IETF wants to improve privacy, it should work on protocols that provide anonymous access to signed artifacts (authentication of the content, not the connection) that is independent of the user's access mechanism. But it seems to me that there is basically no way to request access to any kind of data, without it being traceable in some manner; at the very least the ISP would still see the traffic. I guess you could argue for TOR, but that still allows vectors and has its own issues to worry about. Funny, we need the same kinda access that radio and TV used to provide; where you could just "tune in" to something and have a listen, and you were more or less untraceable; even if you were to broadcast on that frequency your traceability, while triangulable, is still fairly anonymous. But on the internet, there is no such way to broadcast like that. Maybe that's a design flaw, maybe it's a feature.