RE: insane over-regulation - what not to do
Could you be more specific? Are you talking about Part VIII DOMAIN NAME REGISTAR or something else? rsw. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Bush Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: insane over-regulation - what not to do just so one can see how deep in a hole things can go if no grownups are present, look at what ghana is about to do to kill the goose that laid the golden egg http://rip.psg.com/~randy/ghana-insanity.pdf randy
RE: insane over-regulation - what not to do
Could you be more specific? Are you talking about Part VIII DOMAIN NAME REGISTAR or something else? rsw. I like Part XIII, Subsecton 115. Thing. myself. -Jerry
Re: insane over-regulation - what not to do
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:21:34 CDT, Jerry Pasker said: I like Part XIII, Subsecton 115. Thing. myself. Actually, that serves a very important purpose - it codifies the concept that a string of ones and zeros can represent something with actual value. If it wasn't there, a defendant could argue that they didn't steal/forge a bank account withdrawal authorization, they just copied/created a stream of bits. pgp469JBcfKfx.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: insane over-regulation - what not to do
Could you be more specific? Are you talking about Part VIII DOMAIN NAME REGISTAR or something else? the whole thing as a piece. it looks to be a, likely well-meaning, attempt by a gang of bureaucrats and a fancy consultant to put the universe in a glass jar and preserve it. from end user, to net operations, to infrastructure, to administration, to law. [ i do not do the GH domain. folk in ghana do, but i let them run it on one of my servers. ] randy rsw. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Bush Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: insane over-regulation - what not to do just so one can see how deep in a hole things can go if no grownups are present, look at what ghana is about to do to kill the goose that laid the golden egg http://rip.psg.com/~randy/ghana-insanity.pdf randy
RE: insane over-regulation - what not to do
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Randy Whitney wrote: Could you be more specific? Are you talking about Part VIII DOMAIN NAME REGISTAR or something else? Not presuming to answer for Randy, just for myself: This follows one of the typical failure-modes of technical legislation, which is that it contains quite a few good ideas (cryptographic signatures should be deemed to fulfill the role of signatures, nonrepudiatable electronic delivery should be deemed to constitute delivery, etc.) which are re-worded in less-specific more accessible language by lawyers, chopped into very small bits, mixed and blended until uniformly unrecognizable, and allowed to ferment until twelve times larger. These things typically create a bit of a baby-with-the-bathwater conundrum for people who think they know what _should_ be done, since many of the things that _should_ be done are in fact buried in the legalese, and starting over from scratch with the same seeds would, like as not, yield a very similar bloated bloated end-product, with another year or two wasted in the mean-time. Which all comes down to the old maxim: you can't legislate stupidity out of existence. Or, perhaps, legislation, by its very existence, brings some stupidity into existence. Less is more. -Bill
Re: insane over-regulation - what not to do
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:36:04AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: the whole thing as a piece. it looks to be a, likely well-meaning, attempt by a gang of bureaucrats and a fancy consultant to put the universe in a glass jar and preserve it. from end user, to net operations, to infrastructure, to administration, to law. There is one thing in here which has great amusement appeal to me: g. ensure compliance with accepted International technical standards in the provision and development of electronic communications and transactions; The protocol police! It sounds like they're going to create an Industry Forum (GHANOG?), which may produce a voluntary industry code. About like our housing code in the US. That's going to be fun to watch. -- David W. HankinsIf you don't do it right the first time, Software Engineer you'll just have to do it again. Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -- Jack T. Hankins pgpeSQViOyltm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: insane over-regulation - what not to do
That's going to be fun to watch. from the outside, not from the inside randy
