EFF
I finally finished the standards paper draft, with much regret that it was later than I said it would be. I've sent it to EFF to see whether it can become a draft official EFF position, instead of a draft proposed official EFF position. :-)
I'm pretty happy with the content, although I think it could use some re-organization. I guess I've been steeped in copy protection debates for a while now, because large paragraphs about the evils of DRM seemed to flow naturally.
Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (briefly mentioned as an authority on the broad implications of design decisions) is quite fascinating.
While I was writing this position paper, I kept thinking of the epigraph to Neil Postman's Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology:
Whether or not it draws on new scientific research,
technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science.(Paul Goodman, New Reformation)
