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The
trick is enforceable public policies on information collection and
dissemination.
The
Semantic Web constitution is a good ideal. It should be something
that
folks
like J. Reagle get involved in, and the W3C heavily promotes.
Unlike
the Deep Linking issue which I find troubling because
it
reeks of the W3C attempting to legislate, this can be a draft policy which
is
promoted to the members of the W3C as a "good to implement" and then
to the
governments as "good to reference normatively". Of course, like
gun
control, it tends to only keep the honest in line. But it can
be like PICS, a
sensible policy and makes it clear that when violated, a criminal act
is
conducted and legal remedies are available to the aggrieved. Like
Deep
Linking, it is necessary for the lawmakers to understand as best
as
they can, the implications of the application of technology. That
way,
they
legislate the application or use and not the technology
itself.
In
short, the web is a good thing if not applied witlessly. It seems we
can
never forget the lessons of The Emperor's Nightingale or the
Rabbi's Golem.
len
In a message
dated 23/10/2002 18:54:59 GMT Daylight Time, clbullar@ingr.com
writes:
Databases leak.
I guess that's what we could call Information
Incontinence.
Andrew Watt
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