D. N. Vercáriâ
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(last post: March 15, 2008 - 16:51)
Citizen #26:
Dieter N Vercáriâ | >
> > after discussion with deet, we agreed on founding of "talossan telecom" (TT),
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> Firstly, I am intrigued to hear that apparently important decisions like this are being made without my input, and would like it if the Seneschál would confirm whether I am still in the Government or not.
You are, but maybe I'm out, eh? :-P I know you hate this particular smiley, and that's why I'm posting it here. There.
> Secondly, this proposal amounts to the re-privatisation of Wittenberg. No dice. I insist that our webspace is owned by the President of the Republic directly as the elected representative of the Talossan people, and administered by people directly responsible to the President.
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> > the CEO must be non-politician,
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> Well, this is incredibly inconsistent of the President, who is trying to abolish "non-political" roles in favour of everyone being allowed to do every job (eg bringing the Speaker into the Government).
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> > we need to nationalise it "perfectly",
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> By creating a private corporation to run it?!?
To bring down this glider of rhetorical brilliance: Please tell us, how a President, who will have to quit his office at least every two years, could practially pass the ownership of webspace and domain names to a successor without causing an interrupt in the service. Please take into account, that said ownership would include being the billing contact, and furthermore, that occasionally this would include a transfer of macronational contract across the borders of continents.
So, practically, we can vest the political control of the ownership in the hands of whomsoever we want, but in the real world we need to sign contracts with a provider of webspace and with a registrar who provides us with domain names, and in countries like Germany a real-world liability is coming along with being the one whose name is in the WHOIS database - this isn't something to toy with.
That is, said abovementioned "private corporation under Talossan law" would have to be some sort of an interface between hobby horse activities and a variety of international laws that none of us can ignore. So, again, if you can tell us how a variety of Talossan Presidents can be our legal representatives to the real world of web hosting contracts for years, and how they will find the best contract for us, without an annually scheduled interrupt of the service, tell us about all the technical and legal details. NOW.
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- Dieter
A long history is fine, a long future is better.
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