"A newly designed Internet Protocol, restricting communication source autonomy, is being quietly drafted with detailed technical standards that “define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous” by a United Nations agency. The “IP Traceback” drafting group, which has declined to release key documents or allow their meetings to be open to the public, includes, among others, the United States National Security Agency. While the traceback proposal is not scheduled to be released or finished until 2009, concerns are already being raised by privacy advocates that should the US adopt this or a similar proposal, the right to Internet anonymity would disappear, a right they claim is guaranteed by the Constitution. There is also concern that IP traceback would be abused, under the guise of public protection in light of current suspected terrorist activities, and become yet another method for the government to become Big Brother." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet