BAD NEWS :( Government amendments reinforce Big Browser

[Roland Perry]

In article <200006121836.TAA16420@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>, Charles Lindsey
<chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes
>I would argue that it is acting as a database (just like a web
>server is) and thus not part of the telecommunications system. But that
>argument stands on the assumption that the end points are not part
>of the telecommunications system, and I have niot yet heard how the
>amendment to that effect fared in the Lords this morning.

"the assumption" is not based on particularly on RIP and not at all on
the amendment I think you are referring to. It's simple telecoms
definitions which declare that all things connected to telcoms system
immediately form part of that system. Don't get confused by the BT
white-box NTE (aka NTP), which is a rather different issue.
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