Re: Proposed EU Directive on Electronic Commerce
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:32:29 MET
Two rather basic questions:
- do we accept/support/request regulation which in one way or another
implies technical *implementation* or which implies deployment of a
*particular* technology (TCP/IP/SMTP/..., RFC-xxxx) ?
I suppose being very specific opens up the opprtunity to simply use a
"slightly" different technology and then argue about the applicability
of the regulation. I can image quite a few ways of spamming without
going through email. In fact some of these things are in use already
in the framework of the www...
- trying to filter the info streams at the "last mile" does not really
solve the problem. Of course it *could* solve the problem of the
individual subscriber's access cost (phone-bill, and the like), but
it still allows the stealing of resources on the transit paths.
These resources have to be paid for, anyway, usually by the customers
of an ISP :-)
Thus I suppose a better approach c/w/should be to work at the ingress
side for UCE. This means service contracts, AUPs, and enforcement of
these. Which, in the end, means: do ISPs want to sacrifice their
income (directly or indirectly, e.g. by offering anonymous access) for
the advantage(?) of being categorized as a "good" ISP and Netizen ??
Wilfried.
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