Re: Re(2): CommerceNet

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From: Marc Andreessen
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 03:31

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In article <rfgCq3CJr.1nJ@netcom.com> rfg@netcom.com (Ronald F.
Guilmette) writes:

   In article <CpIsFG.3pJ@nbn.com> booker@next.sdsc.edu (Booker  C. Bense ) writes:
   >... The real limitation is the "Trusted Third Party", every
   >scheme that I am currently aware of requires this. Who should we
   >trust? Clipper? The FBI? The PostOffice? Who should be the "keeper
   >of the keys"? Who are you willing to trust the entire balance of your
   >various banking accounts to.....?

How about your bank?

   And by the way, why isn't either NIST or the FCC the most obvious choices
   to the ``keepers of the keys''.  

I can't think of a single reason they would be.  Why would you think
so?

   (Actually, I think NIST would be the right place.  The FCC has
   enough other things to do.)

What in either NIST's or the FCC's charter would lead you to either of
these conclusions?

   Anyway, somewhere within the department of commerce seems right.

I must be missing something...

Marc

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Marc Andreessen
Mosaic Communications Corp.
Mountain View, CA
marca@netcom.com

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From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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Subject: Re: Re(2): CommerceNet
Date: 20 May 94 03:31:47
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