[Ietf-not43] -02 requirements draft

[Eric A. Hall]

on 11/6/2002 9:22 PM Leslie Daigle wrote:
> I will agree there is no *technical* way to ensure
> it.  However, I believe our job is to provide the facility
> for implementing the requirements (or at least, not
> add additional impediments).

Well they can certainly the use same hooks as the rest of us, and if they
perform the necessary negotations (or legal actions) with the owners of
the databases they want to access, then they can certainly use those tools
for whatever data-mining purposes they want. They just need to know that
(1) the public partitions and servers will not suit their vertical needs,
and (2) the data they end up getting access to may be wrong or incomplete
(willingly or accidentally), and we have very little real control over
that given the range of players and involved in this effort and the
practical limits of any sufficiently flexible technology.

Combined, this means that public system will essentially be limited to
functioning as a database of the good-guys, albeit a nice one.

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