A year ago, ETSI held a vote on a draft European standard on "Key
Management with Key Escrow/Key Recovery" based on the British Royal
Holloway protocol. ETSI votes are weighted; a standard needs 71% of
the votes to be accepted. Only the member governments were allowed to
vote. The key escrow standard got 56.12% No votes.
The results (as found in a paper by U. Heister and R. Schmitz of
Deutsche Telekom) are interesting:
Yes: Belgium (5), Bulgaria (3), Cyprus (2), Czech Rep. (3), Hungary (3),
Netherlands (5), Portugal (5), Slovak Rep. (2), Turkey (5), UK (10).
No: Austria (4), Denmark (3), Finland (5), Germany (10), Greece (5),
Ireland (3), Italy (10), Norway (3), Sweden (4), Switzerland (5).
Abst: France (10), Spain (8).
