Veni
A member of the Bulgarian parlament called me today, asking to provide him with information about possible legislature in European countries and the US about ISP licensing, Internet laws, etc.
Could you: a) point me to web sites where I can find this b) briefly inform me what's the current status in your country or in any other that you are familiar with?
You may check http://www.wia.org/ http://www.patents.com/ http://www.inet.de/ (German) http://www.widmerpartners-lawyers.ch/itlaw.htm (German, our lawyers) For CH and LI there is no activity by federal institutions although they watch closely what we (a foundation of the Swiss government and the cantons hosting universities) are doing. We at SWITCH have the feeling that the government should not become involved and does not need to be involved. Everything gets more cumbersume with having the status of a sovereign body: your data base needs to comply to strict data protection rules (at least here in Switzerland) pricing and policy issues will probably be handled by several committees and then forced upon you, your status will be that of an official employee of the government etc. Arghh ;-). But the debate around domain names has woken up many governments and they now see a need for them to regulate anything. Does the situation in BG justify such an involvent ? Marcel -------- Logged at Thu Feb 26 20:14:00 MET 1998 ---------