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Re: (cpx) Australian GAK?
[email protected] (David Murray) asked [email protected]:
>I've just seen a note to the effect that the (Australian) Senate Economics
>References Committee has recommended, in their recently tabled report
>quaintly entitled _Connecting You Now...Telecommunications to the Year
>2000_ the establishment of a third party body for the management of public
>key authentication.
>
>The Committee has also recommended the establishment of a national
>authentication system to be recognised internationally with credibility
>>with the legal system - True Names, most probably.
>
>Any c'punks closer to Canberra with the real goods?
So far, very few Australian Senate documents are up on the net (honourable
exception: those of those of the Committee on 'Community Standards' and
on-line services); but keep your eye on them, and maybe they'll catch up:
http://senate.aph.gov.au/
Steve Orlowski from the Australian Attorney-General's Department wrote a
paper in November/December 1995 which outlined the idea. He's given me
permission to put it up. Me? I'm just playing proxy until A-G's really
come to believe in this medium (:-)}
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/Orlowski3
While you're at it, check these two out as well, and hit me with anything
that'll improve them:
- hot-links concerned with regulation of the net:
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/Regn
- a compendium of things that go bump on the net:
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/Netethiquettecases
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