The CP80 Foundation

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The CP80 Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)4 organization that advocates legislation known as the Internet Community Ports Act, which would segregate the ports as defined by the TCP/IP protocol suite into so-called "community ports" and "open ports", banning obscene material from the former. Among the ports they propose designating as a community port is port 80, the standard standard port for the hypertext transport protocol (HTTP), the transport mechanism used to support the World Wide Web. This is advocated in order to permit easier filtering of such material by firewalls, content-control software, and other devices or programs.^[1]

The Utah legislature has approved a resolution calling upon the United States Congress to pass the proposed legislation^[2]

The CP80 Foundation was established in 2005. According to ^[3] its chairman is foundation is Ralph Yarro III who is also chairman of the board of the SCO Group and one of the people most responsible for SCO's aggressive litigation strategy against IBM, Novell and Linux end-users such as Autozone and Daimler Chrysler.