Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Mon Feb 22 09:10:55 2010 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:09:45 +0200 From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> To: NANOG Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu> Subject: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
The email portability bill has just been approved by the Knesset's committee for legislation, sending it on its way for the full legislation process of the Israeli parliament.
While many users own a free email account, many in Israel still make use of their ISP's email service.
According to this proposed bill, when a client transfers to a different ISP the email address will optionally be his to take along, "just like" mobile providers do today with phone numbers.
This new legislation makes little technological sense, and will certainly be a mess to handle operationally as well as beurocratically, but it certainly is interesting, and at least the notion is beautiful.
Quick! Somebody propose a snail-mail portability bill. When a renter changes to a different landlord, his snail-mail address will be optionally his to take along, "just like" what is proposed for ISP clients.
The proposed bill can be found here [Doc, Hebrew]: http://my.ynet.co.il/pic/computers/22022010/mail.doc
Linked to from this ynet (leading Israeli news site) story, here: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3852744,00.html
I will update this as things evolve on my blog, here: http://gadievron.blogspot.com/
Gadi.
In message <201002230227.o1N2RaDp021692@mail.r-bonomi.com>, Robert Bonomi write s:
Quick! Somebody propose a snail-mail portability bill. When a renter changes to a different landlord, his snail-mail address will be optionally his to take along, "just like" what is proposed for ISP clients.
You can pay for this redirection service if you want it. Usually it is time limited and often not fully implemented. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 13:38 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
In message <201002230227.o1N2RaDp021692@mail.r-bonomi.com>, Robert Bonomi write s:
Quick! Somebody propose a snail-mail portability bill. When a renter changes to a different landlord, his snail-mail address will be optionally his to take along, "just like" what is proposed for ISP clients.
You can pay for this redirection service if you want it. Usually it is time limited and often not fully implemented.
But.... with snail-mail it usually ¬just works¬, uses existing proven technology, provides a little extra revenue for the carriers, etc etc etc I just don't see any of the above happening with _this_ proposal. Hmm, maybe 'proposal' isn't the correct word for it - by a long way. I have a feeling it's going to be implemented in the following manner: ./great_idea.sh | bad_plan >> /dev/null Hey - maybe they should submit an RFC? :) next up: State of Israel vs. SORBS et al. ding-ding! Maybe I'm too pessimistic? Gord
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