RE: [Asrg] Opt-out lists and legislation

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>]

> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 04:46:22 PST, "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" said:
> 
> > What an amazingly parochial view. It is unlikely that we are going
> > to see any US led trade agreements for many years. Why do you assume
> > that your country is the only super-national actor? 
> 
> That was his point - the US, even as the most obvious super-national,
> is having a hard time convincing other countries to do what we want.

My point was that even though the approach of the current US 
administration does not lend itself to successful diplomacy or 
influence on subjects such as spam prevention, that fact does not
preclude the possibility that other countries could be successfull
in that role.

> We can't even convince the rest of the US Security Council of 
> such blazingly
> obvious "facts" as "madmen must be disarmed". ;)

Oh I think that if you took a poll of the leaders in question they
would all be very anxious to see the parties they consider madmen
to be disarmed.

> > Korea is looking to adopt anti-spam legislation unilaterally. Their
> > people have the same complaints as everyone else.
> 
> Right - the point is that they're doing it because THEIR citizens are
> asking, not because some other country is.

But they are very likely to be interested in synchronizing the approach 
they take with that of other countries in order to achieve maximum 
effectiveness.


		Phill 
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