Re: [d@DCC] DRM for email

From: "tOM Trottier" <Tom _-at-_ Abacurial.com>
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:58:34 -0500
References: <3DDFBE48.11968.14232BE9@localhost>

On Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 17:50
Russell McOrmond <discuss@digital-copyright.ca> wrote:

> 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.

Useful for tracking open relays. If they were all closed, there'd be 
much less spam.
 
> > 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.

Will Canada mandate open standards for all software... wow!

>   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.

Certainly, but I would like the decision-makers' backs to prickle when 
they hear of ways for big corporations to tie up standards or content 
in tangles of encryptions and obfuscation.

tOM
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