Re: The future will be easy to use

At 10:56 PM 11/26/95, James A. Donald wrote:
>At 01:12 PM 11/27/95 -0800, Jonathan Zamick wrote:
>> it
>> means forming a group, made up of Cypherpunk members perhaps, but much
>> smaller, and capable of working together. Also capable of handling not only
>> the theory, but good solid code, GUI, PR, meetings, talking to the
>> government, etc.
>
>Skip the talking to the government bit:  Ignore, do not confront.

I can't agree. The model of a successful enterprise includes feedback from
different levels of participants. Regardless, the government will be taking
a role in encryption. Thus even if they aren't a defining part of the
development, bringing them to a limited extent into the loop, and finding
even small areas which the government would support, helps provide better
buy-in by the government officials who participate, helping the momentum.

The point isn't to bring them into the design, but simply to use their
feedback to optimize our PR approach.

Jonathan

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Jonathan Zamick writes:
> I can't agree. The model of a successful enterprise includes feedback from
> different levels of participants.

This isn't an enterprise. The government is not a participant except
by their own desire to interfere.

> Regardless, the government will be taking a role in encryption.

What makes you say that? Besides, why would that be desirable on any
level?

The Government will try to set standards and we will ignore them until
they try to force them on us by law, period.

Perry