On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 05:12, Keith Moore wrote:
To further your point, an area completely outside of ICANN's purview,
yet an
area requiring governance is PKI. We are at the point where deployment
of a
PKI has moved beyond technical issues, becoming almost completely the
policy
& politics of "trust". Until the politicians broker the trust
relationships,
there is nothing technology can do.
since when are politicians trustworthy enough to broker trust
relationships?
I'd put this a different way. Until PKIs are able to represent the
rich diversity of trust relationships that exist in the real world,
they are mere curiosities with marginal practical value.
From a very recent article for the economist: (not sure about the exact
wording) Politicians have shown they are greedy and influenceable as to
see their priorities when it comes to Internet: Intellectual Property
pushed by the powerful music industry lobby against the privacy and
rights of millions of people.
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