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Bart Schaefer wrote:
Right. The restaurant owner could do a lot better with, say, a police
mugbook of known street gang members, but he doesn't have one, or maybe
his other patrons just don't like dining with teenagers anyway.
The restaurant gets to choose from police mugbooks of convicted bathroom
vandals, books of security cam pictures of kids vandalizing bathrooms,
books of pictures of kids carrying sledgehammers into bathrooms, kids
living in the same house as bathroom vandals, kids in the same gang as
those carrying sledgehammers, kids in homes that have sledgehammers,
kids that look "funny", kids that look like other kids, pictures of
random kids, pictures of kids who don't vandalize bathrooms, pictures of
all kids, pictures of kids whose first name starts with a letter in the
first half of the alphabet etc. Some of these books aren't labeled very
well or accurately published. Some of them are quite accurate.
The restaurant needs to choose which books are appropriate, which ones
keep out the most likely to vandalize, without killing their business by
keeping too many out. If they don't, they're going to lose.
To carry the analogy further, requiring DSL customers to send mail via
their ISP server is like allowing the kids into the restaurant only if
accompanied by their parents. Some of the kids, and maybe even some of
the parents, are going to complain. The Church draft, in effect, argues
that those complaints are enough reason to disparage the whole practice.
It does? Ouch. Flies in the face of a number of existing published BCPs.
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