[122886] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Mon Feb 22 21:28:10 2010
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:27:36 -0600 (CST)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Mon Feb 22 09:10:55 2010
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:09:45 +0200
> From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
> To: NANOG Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
> Subject: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
>
> 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.
Quick! Somebody propose a snail-mail portability bill. When a renter
changes to a different landlord, his snail-mail address will be optionally
his to take along, "just like" what is proposed for ISP clients.
>
> 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
>
> I will update this as things evolve on my blog, here:
> http://gadievron.blogspot.com/
>
> Gadi.
>
