Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
> Date: February 22, 2010 10:10:51 AM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

> Hi again Dave, busy news day.
>
> For IP.
>
>    Gadi.
>
> The email portability bill has just been approved by the Knesset's  
> committee for legislation, sending it on its way for the full  
> legislation process of the Israeli parliament.
>
> While many users own a free email account, many in Israel still make  
> use of their ISP's email service.
>
> According to this proposed bill, when a client transfers to a  
> different ISP the email address will optionally be his to take  
> along, "just like" mobile providers do today with phone numbers.
>
> This new legislation makes little technological sense, and will  
> certainly be a mess to handle operationally as well as  
> beurocratically, but it certainly is interesting, and at least the  
> notion is beautiful.
>
> The proposed bill can be found here [Doc, Hebrew]:
> http://my.ynet.co.il/pic/computers/22022010/mail.doc
>
> Linked to from this ynet (leading Israeli news site) story, here:
> http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3852744,00.html
>
> I will update this as things evolve on my blog, here:
> http://gadievron.blogspot.com/
>
>    Gadi.



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