--- On Tue, 9/22/09, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Presidential Internet Kill Switch May Still Be Alive
I'm glad that the conversation is being had. That's the best thing about the
Act: it is going to force a set of conversations that we all need to have. I
just hope it doesn't end up wrapped around axles forever.
"The new language dropped all references to the president's ability to shut
down the Internet. Instead, Rockefeller and Snowe granted the president the
authority to declare a cyber-security emergency and to direct the "national
response to the cyber-threat."
Well, yeah.
In the event of a national emergency, the President has all sorts of
extraordinary powers. We need to work out how these play out for
communications systems.
Further, the slapshod set of regulatory regimes that exist today need to evolve
into something more consistent, and imo this is an area where government should
get involved. Just like in trade - where there is a role for government to
validate that when I buy a pound of sugar that it weighs a pound and is in fact
sugar - the government has a valid role in setting baseline requirements for
the management of something as fundamentally necessary as the national
communications system.
Our roles, as some of the folks who know a thing or two about the topic, is to
engage in the conversation so it has some chance of not being completely
ridiculous (or maybe ensuring that it is).
-chris "Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise." blask
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