[governance] Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

[Gadi Evron]

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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