Comments on: What Was the Biggest Tech Policy Story of 2006? http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:51:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: enigma_foundry http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-36544 enigma_foundry Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:39:53 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/#comment-36544 <p>There's no doubt in my mind that the big story was the nearly total discrediting of e-voting, especially e-voting that is not backed up by a paper trail, where the paper trail is the actual vote.</p> <p>This happened incrementally though, so it wasn't ever a big story all at once.</p> <p>But, by the end of 2006, e-voting without a verified a legally binding paper trail is DOA...</p> There’s no doubt in my mind that the big story was the nearly total discrediting of e-voting, especially e-voting that is not backed up by a paper trail, where the paper trail is the actual vote.

This happened incrementally though, so it wasn’t ever a big story all at once.

But, by the end of 2006, e-voting without a verified a legally binding paper trail is DOA…

]]> By: eee_eff http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-54697 eee_eff Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:39:53 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/#comment-54697 <p>There's no doubt in my mind that the big story was the nearly total discrediting of e-voting, especially e-voting that is not backed up by a paper trail, where the paper trail is the actual vote.<br><br>This happened incrementally though, so it wasn't ever a big story all at once.<br><br>But, by the end of 2006, e-voting without a verified a legally binding paper trail is DOA...</p> There’s no doubt in my mind that the big story was the nearly total discrediting of e-voting, especially e-voting that is not backed up by a paper trail, where the paper trail is the actual vote.

This happened incrementally though, so it wasn’t ever a big story all at once.

But, by the end of 2006, e-voting without a verified a legally binding paper trail is DOA…

]]> By: eric http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-36543 eric Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:09:29 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/#comment-36543 <p>Thanks to the continuing debate and information on this blog, I did write my Congresscritters to protest that Net Neutrality was a solution to a virtually non-existent problem. Hopefully these communications have a little bit of impact, at least.</p> <p>The possibility of regulation should be held over the heads of industry for a while, though, so they won't create a problem that needs regulating. I think we had the best possible outcome, in which legislation was threatened, but not passed.</p> Thanks to the continuing debate and information on this blog, I did write my Congresscritters to protest that Net Neutrality was a solution to a virtually non-existent problem. Hopefully these communications have a little bit of impact, at least.

The possibility of regulation should be held over the heads of industry for a while, though, so they won’t create a problem that needs regulating. I think we had the best possible outcome, in which legislation was threatened, but not passed.

]]> By: eric http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-54696 eric Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:09:29 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/#comment-54696 <p>Thanks to the continuing debate and information on this blog, I did write my Congresscritters to protest that Net Neutrality was a solution to a virtually non-existent problem. Hopefully these communications have a little bit of impact, at least.<br><br>The possibility of regulation should be held over the heads of industry for a while, though, so they won't create a problem that needs regulating. I think we had the best possible outcome, in which legislation was threatened, but not passed.</p> Thanks to the continuing debate and information on this blog, I did write my Congresscritters to protest that Net Neutrality was a solution to a virtually non-existent problem. Hopefully these communications have a little bit of impact, at least.

The possibility of regulation should be held over the heads of industry for a while, though, so they won’t create a problem that needs regulating. I think we had the best possible outcome, in which legislation was threatened, but not passed.

]]> By: Richard Bennett http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-36542 Richard Bennett Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:29:31 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/#comment-36542 <p>AT&T's cave-in on neut netrality (see tomorrow's WSJ) has to rank pretty high, and so does the story of the Great Asian Spam Blackout caused by the earthquake's destruction of the Taiwan Tube to the US.</p> AT&T’s cave-in on neut netrality (see tomorrow’s WSJ) has to rank pretty high, and so does the story of the Great Asian Spam Blackout caused by the earthquake’s destruction of the Taiwan Tube to the US.

]]> By: Richard Bennett http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-54695 Richard Bennett Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:29:31 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/#comment-54695 <p>AT&T;'s cave-in on neut netrality (see tomorrow's WSJ) has to rank pretty high, and so does the story of the Great Asian Spam Blackout caused by the earthquake's destruction of the Taiwan Tube to the US.</p> AT&T;’s cave-in on neut netrality (see tomorrow’s WSJ) has to rank pretty high, and so does the story of the Great Asian Spam Blackout caused by the earthquake’s destruction of the Taiwan Tube to the US.

]]> By: Noel Le http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-36541 Noel Le Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:52:35 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/#comment-36541 <p>It was a pretty big year for patent law, with eBay, RIM and KSR. There you have the presumption of validity, patent trolls, a judge who set precedent for how <em>not</em> to let USPTO re-examination take its course and the non-obvious standard. All you need now is to mix in some mystery, seduction and conspiracy to come out with a real life drama.</p> It was a pretty big year for patent law, with eBay, RIM and KSR. There you have the presumption of validity, patent trolls, a judge who set precedent for how not to let USPTO re-examination take its course and the non-obvious standard. All you need now is to mix in some mystery, seduction and conspiracy to come out with a real life drama.

]]> By: Noel Le http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-54694 Noel Le Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:52:35 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/12/28/what-was-the-biggest-tech-policy-story-of-2006/#comment-54694 <p>It was a pretty big year for patent law, with eBay, RIM and KSR. There you have the presumption of validity, patent trolls, a judge who set precedent for how <em>not</em> to let USPTO re-examination take its course and the non-obvious standard. All you need now is to mix in some mystery, seduction and conspiracy to come out with a real life drama.</p> It was a pretty big year for patent law, with eBay, RIM and KSR. There you have the presumption of validity, patent trolls, a judge who set precedent for how not to let USPTO re-examination take its course and the non-obvious standard. All you need now is to mix in some mystery, seduction and conspiracy to come out with a real life drama.

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