[governance] Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

[Milton L Mueller]

There is a very simple way to get a fully portable email address: register a domain name. 
;-) 

> But here we have a good concept - email address portability (who could
> disagree with it in principle) 

I could disagree with it in principle! 
Legislatively granting end users a property right in a domain name and user ID of an ISP they no longer pay is a good example of taking consumer activism too far, at which point it reverses itself and becomes anti-consumer, because by expropriating suppliers it generates all kinds of unintended and generally destructive market repercussions to achieve very small benefits. 

I would be very interested to know who lobbied for and promoted this bill. 

--MM

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From: Ian Peter [ian.peter at ianpeter.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 3:13 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Gadi Evron
Subject: Re: [governance] Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

Very interesting Gadi!

As someone noted elsewhere, the most likely effect is ISPs will stop
bundling email with their services, and people who don't manage their own
domains will opt towards gmail, hotmail and similar services.

But here we have a good concept - email address portability (who could
disagree with it in principle) hitting a technology infrastructure that will
find it difficult and problematic to cope with this.

Wont this break SPF? And make spam a little easier? Depends on how it is
implemented I suppose...




Ian Peter


> From: Gadi Evron <gadi at anime.org>
> Reply-To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Gadi Evron <gadi at anime.org>
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:15:18 +0200
> To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
> Subject: [governance] Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
>
> Hello folks, I hope this message is not considered off-topic, if it is
> please let me know.
>
> The email portability bill has just been approved by the Knesset's
> committee for legislation, sending it on its way for the full
> legislation process of the Israeli parliament.
>
> While many users own a free email account, many in Israel still make
> use of their ISP's email service.
>
> According to this proposed bill, when a client transfers to a
> different ISP the email address will optionally be his to take along,
> "just like" mobile providers do today with phone numbers.
>
> This new legislation makes little technological sense, and will
> certainly be a mess to handle operationally as well as
> beurocratically, but it certainly is interesting, and at least the
> notion is beautiful.
>
> The proposed bill can be found here [Doc, Hebrew]:
> http://my.ynet.co.il/pic/computers/22022010/mail.doc
>
> Linked to from this ynet (leading Israeli news site) story, here:
> http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3852744,00.html
>
> Gadi.
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