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re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:49:55 -0500
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From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw () gmail com> Date: February 22, 2010 2:15:08 PM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
Does this bill have a concept of ownership of the address separate from the addressee?So if, for example, someone leaves a staff position at the Knesset, can he take his email address staffer-x () knesset gov il with him?Beyond all the obvious (and less-than-obvious) technical problems, this would destroy whatever trust we now derive from institutional email addresses.Mary Shaw On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Dave Farber <dave () farber net> wrote: Begin forwarded message:From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> Date: February 22, 2010 10:10:51 AM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Email Portability Approved by Knesset CommitteeHi again Dave, busy news day. For IP. Gadi.The email portability bill has just been approved by the Knesset's committee for legislation, sending it on its way for the full legislation process of the Israeli parliament.While many users own a free email account, many in Israel still make use of their ISP's email service.According to this proposed bill, when a client transfers to a different ISP the email address will optionally be his to take along, "just like" mobile providers do today with phone numbers.This new legislation makes little technological sense, and will certainly be a mess to handle operationally as well as beurocratically, but it certainly is interesting, and at least the notion is beautiful.The proposed bill can be found here [Doc, Hebrew]: http://my.ynet.co.il/pic/computers/22022010/mail.doc Linked to from this ynet (leading Israeli news site) story, here: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3852744,00.html I will update this as things evolve on my blog, here: http://gadievron.blogspot.com/ Gadi.Archives
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