Legislating for the Long Term?

[Yaman Akdeniz]

Bruce,

> Firstly my apologies to anyone I didn't list in my proposed
> committee. It was late and I was just going off the top of my head.
> Yaman and Phillip would be excellent candidates also.

Hello Bruce and no need to apologise. Your idea is an excellent one
but it has always been difficult to get organised at the UK level. 
Lack of organisation results with being unheard. At the end of the 
day uk.crypto never makes the news or a few of us catches the 
attention of the media. On the other hand government departments do 
not have that difficulty, they organise a press meeting and a press 
statement then you read them in all papers.

We need an efficient system, call it a coalition or a new campaign 
(or the possibility of an advisory board for CR&CL (UK) is not 
excluded). It may have a specific issue in mind or more than one. For 
example, I am one of the few dealing with the development of rating 
systems and it is not enough. I am willing to participate in any 
decent efficient and serious proposal. If anyone is interested we can 
discuss this off the list.

I would also like to  mention that issuing press releases is not 
enough, it sometimes attracts the media but I always aim to do 
more than that but my sources and time is limited.

> All the sites in the world (and there are many exceptionally good
> ones that deal with these matters, one of which is Yaman's) won't do
> the amount of good we need done however, because they are basically
> preaching to the converted. We need to address, educated those
> people not yet on the net, not yet familiar with (let alone not
> having heard of) the issues yet even if they've been on the net for
> a while.

You are absolutely right and the first people to target should be
journalists and the media in general and then government officials and
law enforcement agencies.

Regards.

Yaman

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Yaman Akdeniz <lawya@leeds.ac.uk>
Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) at:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/pgs/yaman/yaman.htm

Read CR&CL (UK) Report, 'Who Watches the Watchmen'
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/pgs/yaman/watchmen.htm
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