The Smith Report

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <003001bfccb8$3ce124e0$0100a8c0@director>, Caspar Bowden
<cb@fipr.org> writes

>In other words ISPs are supposed to pay for boxes that the Government has
>designed and programmed. Would any ISP involved in discussions with
>Government like to confirm whether they have been offered verifiable access
>to the software running on the boxes - if so how? 

every ISP I am aware of has indicated that they would be unwilling to
pay for such a box ... Government policy is not to pay for such software
(the Smith Report recommended a change of policy but I haven't seen any
response) ... and as far as anyone is aware, the software described does
not currently exist

hence the entire question is hypothetical, at several levels

>Suppose 

suppose !

>government
>eventually stumped up the cash (after much operatic grumbling) to pay for
>the boxes - huge sighs of relief from ISP industry, all RIP opposition from
>that quarter collapses, ISPs completely out-of-the-loop.

you assume that the only motivating issue for ISPs is money :( and
indeed that paying for the hardware fully addresses the money issue !

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richard                       writing to inform and not as company policy
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