Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do you figure Joey? Some countries will let us distribute patented > stuff... other countries will let us distribute crypto stuff... The scheme > proposed does do away with non-US, by making its original functionality so > fine-grained that it disappears into the rest of the distribution. Or am I > missing something here? > > And, according to comments I've heard from others, you are wrong. Most > countries outside the US *do* allow export of crypto, so our situation would > change pretty dramatically. suddenly a lot more currently "non-US" packages > would be on a lot more mirrors, and thus harder to stamp out, and the laod > would be much better distributed among our mirrors. Again, am I missing > something here?
I can think of one thing that seems to have been missed: To where do we upload packages ? Are we going to end up with a situation where we have to have the uploads to the Cayman isles, or some such ? Or do we end up with a separate site for non-US type stuff, with the rest going to master ? It seems that we'll just get back to the situation we already have. Perhaps a better goal (although significantly more difficult) would be to design a system where we can have multiple symmetric masters, where you can upload to any of them, and the propagate packages amongst themselves. Cheers, Phil.
