Re: Arguments wanted....

[Simon Poole <[e-mail]>]

> => 
> => This sounds very restrictive, I cannot imagine this surviving a challenge
> => in court, but then CH is, well, different perhaps.....
> 
> Such restrictions would be forbiden if CH was a member of the European
> Community. Electronic mail is a value added telecommunication service, and
> thus fall under strict "free trade, no regulations allowed whatsoever" rules.
> In fact, it may well be the case that some of the treaties between CH and the
> EC result in importing this free trade enforcement -- your lawyers could check.

The trick is naturally that it only applies if you are using a registered
PRMD, so it doesn't restrict anybody from using X.400 in whatever way they
want per se.

There's a similar other regulation which forbids interconnection of systems
using a registered NSAP address with systems that don't (actually the literal
wording doesn't actually mention interconnection). As a network operator I do 
sympathize with this a bit, but again it seems to go to the extreme limits of 
regulation.


Simon