On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 06:25:17AM -0800, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > The only way that an imminent crisis can lead to large scale concerted > action is if [...] ... it happens. > You do not need to be an economist or apply fancy algebra to > understand the effects of economic processes. If we are not prepared > to try to understand the economists, why should the economists attempt > to understand us? As I said, a real PKI is a political problem. Is it really necessary in this day and age to point out that economists take a back seat to politicians? It seems there's nothing that government can't do now, so why not a PKI? :^/ Stephen pointed to regulated PKIs in Asia, proving the point, though if those PKIs are lousy, then it was a lousy point, but at least we might be able to gather data on what the impact of a real PKI might be.
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