On 16 Nov 2000, at 7:48, Gordon Smith wrote:
Hopefully, Govt will actually think (rare concept) and consult the industry before putting something in place that makes our lives even more difficult. After all, if you have a fully meshed network, do you really want to introduce single points of failure just so GCSB/SIS/Police/(insert dept here) can sniff traffic?
In some cases, the opposition may be more help than the government. They actually have a net-savy person in there, David Farrar (admission: yes, I know him). So if the government does start proposing things which are actually unworkable, it may make sense to let both the government and the opposition know what the problems are. If it helps, I'm in Wellington and I'm quite prepared to assist with any lobbying or fronting up in front of committees etc. I've done it before at local government level, if that's any training. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog