-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 07:44 AM 7/16/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Stephen Balkam, the head of RSACi, now says he has a solution. He calls it RSACnews and says that legitimate news sites can use it to rate just their home pages without having to review each article. Now, what's a legitimate news site? The Netly News might qualify, but what about the NAMBLA News Journal? "People who generate firsthand reports that have been in some ways verified or structured in a way that gives clear and objective information as possible about events," Balkam says. "We will be working with the news industry to help us develop a criteria." (This, presumably, means groups that have signed on as supporters, including MSNBC, the Wall Street Journal, the Well, CNET and Ziff-Davis. I'm told that the White House wants to qualify as a "news site" -- even though the information there is rarely clear and certainly not objective.)
I hope they'll be including Ian Goddard's site with all its TWA 800 info and reporting of other government activities. (http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm) After all, he was credited as a reporter by Paris Match for his work with Pierre prior to the famous press conference last year. They wouldn't be contemplating licensing of journalists, would they. DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM80Iw4VO4r4sgSPhAQGBawQAqL/1UbEROm7XXrbGoza1zhg1Qx5RJBkx KKRpM7MPSyj0iiTsMIXFdtRT7BwIBZf+UZwlnNJXAUDCcEjaSlsnP9ODzBHxJNQ0 O0q/Kkq2V5aIzwXCitWpBaOBhD7IAsOyantwHmc5gB+avwKo1HlX1gd3Yz6EHCnx OfMZ2XzuLRI= =nuMh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----