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
Could you be more specific? Are you talking about "Part VIII
DOMAIN NAME REGISTAR" or something else?
rsw.
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
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.....
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
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
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.
That's going to be fun to watch.
from the outside, not from the inside
randy