Re: Legal Requirements?

At 7:39 PM +0100 2/7/04, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
>Are laws and legal requirements subject of this working group?

Only if there are any legal requirements that are universal across 
the Internet.

In other words, no.

Having said that, there is probably a general requirement that 
content should be able to have some sort of marking to comply with 
local laws. My guess is that the requirement is that the marking 
should be able to be put on any sub-part, not just on the message as 
a whole.

There is also a requirement that the transmission mechanism for a 
message allow marking before the message is fully transmitted. This 
might be "I'm about to send you something with attribute foo", or it 
might be a requirement that the content have all its markings at the 
beginning of the transmission.


BTW, this isn't a working group, it is a mailing list. I will keep 
harping on that point so that no feels that the rules of the IETF 
apply here.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium