Here's some more: authenticated signatures in regard to digital banking, direct democracy (both net and actual government), contract law, protection of sources in reporting, power of attorney, treaty signatures, anonymity of crime tips to police international bill of rights (some of these mechanisms potentially confer rights that certain governments do not) international law enforcement enforceability of information import/export restrictions evolution of international cooperative inter-government institutions (UN, world courts, world banks, interpol, etc) to match evolution of international net activities jurisdictional issues of international net activities (what does location mean in the net? Can I send an information agent to do things that are legal in the target country but not locally? What if the target country is indeterminate?) future changes in interpretation of sovereignty impact of a hypothetical declaration of a new nation in cyberspace (considering technical ability to vote, trade, "print" currency, tax, implement and enforce contracts, negotiate treaties, etc) U.S. bill of rights and its transferability to net activities U.S. federal versus state jurisdiction over net activities ability of existing legal theory to adequately cover such topics, including strength of current theories of philosophy of law Conceivably it's too early in the state of things to address some of these topics, but they'll all arise at some point, will he nill he. Doug -- Doug Merritt doug@netcom.com Professional Wild-eyed Visionary Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow Unicode Novis Cypherpunks Gutenberg Wavelets Conlang Logli Alife HC_III Computational linguistics Fundamental physics Cogsci SF GA VR CASE TLAs