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Colleagues,
The first (rough) public draft of my paper on agents can be accessed on the
following page:
Agent: I dont think it means, what you think it means.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/reagle.html
It includes the section on the technical etymology of agents and proxies,
and tries to explain concepts of vertical and lateral abstraction in
networking for non-techies -- more challenging AND fun than I thought! It
also peripherally criticizes current legal efforts that focus on enabling
services to exercise the necessary formalities for binding users to
agreements that the users cannot possibly understand.
Comments are welcome. I will probably submit whatever version I have on
Friday to the IASTED's LawTech '99 -- though I fear it may be too techie,
but that is the whole point....
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