[859] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Carrier Liability Legislation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell Kapor)
Wed Jun 19 12:32:19 1991
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 11:29:20 -0400
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
From: mkapor@eff.org (Mitchell Kapor)
ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
>The one problem I can see with the liability provisions is that under
>most (if not all) circumstances it is impossible to prove that the
>author of a USENET article or Internet mail message really is who the
>headers SAY it is.
This raises the interesting question of how robust an identification scheme
needs to be in order to fall under the general rule of the proposal. I'm
sure the lawyers will have a good time arguing about this one. I will pass
this comment on to other experts.
Mitch Kapor, EFF
mkapor@eff.org
