Valenti the radical

Posted on April 20, 2003 by Lessig

A while ago I reported the wonderfully radical testimony of Jack Valenti against the removal of the FIN-SYN rules. I have not been able to find the testimony online. Here’s a large pdf of a scan of the relevant section from the GPO’s reports.

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3 Responses to Valenti the radical

  1. Karl says:
    April 21, 2003 at 9:24 pm

    Thanks.
    -kd

  2. John Saxton says:
    April 28, 2003 at 12:14 pm

    What are the “FIN-SYN” rules? In TCP/IP, “FIN” is a signal to close down a TCP connection, and a “SYN” is a signal to open a new one. But why would Jack Valenti be talking about minutae of TCP/IP? I think “FIN-SYN” must refer to something else in this context, but I’m not familiar enough with the law to know what that is.

    It seems we have a “name collision” between the domains of law and code here.

  3. rainer says:
    December 11, 2003 at 2:30 pm

    I think Jhons “name collision� between the domains ” is the right view

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