On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:45:45 +0200, Alexandre Dulaunoy <adulau-ietf@conostix.com> said: > What is a global legal framework ? I do not understand the purpose of that ? The purpose of that is so that the owners of eBay don't have to go to jail because somebody sells something that's totally legal in the US, but offends some French or German law. It's so that French and German citizens don't go to jail because they post something offensive to Russians. It's so that Russians don't go to jail for posting something offensive to some fundamentalist regime. It's so that Swedish police can prosecute somebody from New Zealand for hacking a machine in Sweden from another machine in Korea - while still avoiding some of the more drastic anti-hacking suggestions that have been made. > I hope this not the application of the classical "material" law in a > global legal framework. Don't knock "material" law - in some places, it's been in use for many hundreds of years, mostly because it *works*. And *many* of the concepts carry over quite nicely - breaking&entering, destruction of property, fraud, and many other crimes. The only places "material" law hasn't done a good job of keeping up have been intellectual property and copyright, and the handling of extra-territorial issues. -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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