Re: [EXT] Re: Safe harbo(u)rs: A structural proposal for interop

> Il 14/02/2022 20:27 Cory Doctorow <cory@eff.org> ha scritto:
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> Again, in the spirit of disaggregating the tech/policy questions into bite-sized standalone pieces, I think we can add "design a referee role" to the list of separate, vital questions, which (in my formulation, at least) now stands at:
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> 1. A safe harbour regime that allows adoption of a standard API or compliance with the standard's requirements;
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> 2. A capture-resistant process for setting those requirements;
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> 3. A capture-resistant process for policing both standards compliance and requirements compliance.
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> What do you think?

In the end, it is also a matter of legal cultures. European regulation tends to be more top-down and prescriptive in detail, while the American tradition is more about limiting as much as possible any necessary constraints to individual freedom. Also, Europe tends to assume that government-led processes are by definition capture-resistant, while the effects of heavy lobbying are given for granted in Washington. Solutions lie somewhere within this range of deviations :-) 

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