Re: [d@DCC] DRM for email

From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:50:09 -0500 (EST)

 
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, tOM Trottier wrote:

> >   In other words: If you want to put DRM on your email, I can configure my
> > email servers to bounce the messages as undeliverable.
> 
> EZ to bounce, but how to report/complain if path unreadable?

   Knowing where SPAM comes from doesn't really help in stopping it.  
Being able to declare a class of email as "don't bother delivering" is 
great.

> Yeah, I know it would probably only be content, but if Disney can buy 
> Congress, what about Micro$oft?

  Congress doesn't control the format of email other than federal 
agencies.   I also don't know why you are worried about 'congress' - we 
need to worry about the Government of Canada.  While we aren't in good 
shape at the moment, we do have  a few key individuals in the right places 
to be moving Canada towards a standards base.


  In fact, I will likely be doing a presentation in February/March to an
eGov conference on just that type of topic.  The extremely early draft
paper is at:

"Office productivity file format standardization: opportunities and
obligations"

  http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/office-citt.html



BTW: Don't assume maliciousness when lack of knowledge is just as 
possible.  I believe our primary goal remains public education.

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