Neil J. McRae wrote:
The problem - to try to steer this bus back onto topic - is the sheer amount of self-policing that the powers-that-want-to-be want us to do. Or it becomes our fault.
Who should do the policing then Peter?
From a viewpoint in the UK, the real police (as in the ones doing the work - not the management) are getting more and more frustrated, they have been reported as saying, at the increasing level of work they are expected to do following the continual implmentation of new legislation. I am sure that
The police ? police forces around the world have similar viewpoints. One of the parts of the process of introducing new criminal law should (nay - must be) a consideration for how it is going to be actually implemented on a day-to-day basis. Pouring money into the bottomless pit that is any civil service project (the police included) very rarely solves the underlying problems. Perhaps more thought is required by the legislators before they pass new acts ? By trying to get around this and requiring soft targets, such as under-represented (OK - under-lobbied to be accurate) industry segments like ISPs, to do this work 'unpaid' is a way of making the politicians look competent and make any self-policed industry look bad when something is missed or goes wrong. rgds, -- Peter