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[Tom Koltai]

My response to the Digital Economy on the question of Data Seceurity.


Tom

Q.27a           What additional steps can industry take in relation to
these issues?

Whilst I do not consider this document to be the ideal place for the
following suggestion; because regretably, on first reading, my
recommendation may be initially viewed as Orwellian in its suggested
implementation, but nevertheless, I consider that to achieve the most
advantageous outcome for Government, Industry and Consumers, an
Australia Data Centre needs to be constructed that provides access to
all Datasets; and I proceed on the basis that the idea may not have the
opportunity to be raised elsewhere.

I suggest that the establishment of the datacentre should possibly be a
joint Fujitsu/EDI/IBM with a Google frontend national database centre, 

The datacentre would by design be split into four distinct locations.
One IBM, One Fijitsu, One EDI and one Google.

Both Fujitsu and IBM would be required to submit to the specifications
of Google (as the front end) and EDI as the backend. Each of IBM and
Fujitsu would have duplicate data and requests would alternate between
the two - providing redundancy and protection against data removal or
tampering.
EDI would be responsible for cataloguing, identifying and hierarchal
organisation of the datasets on the basis of Goggles ongoing search
engine results, thereby ensuring that Australians are best served by
their changing economic search requirements.

Funding
I would suggest that the funding needs to be organised via three
separate methodologies.
Initial capitalisation through the issue of a 25 year bond, with
appropriate tax credits ensuring a 100% recovery of cost for a minimum
of fifty years to the participants.

On going maintenance, and operations will be funded by way of ICT Carbon
Credits based on the number of documents served electronically.
In other words, the more requests received, the higher the Carbon Credit
revenue to the participants.

Management of Data.
No data once supplied may be removed - or altered - ensuring an accurate
history for forthcoming generations.

It should be managed by an oversight committee formed from among:
One ISP/Telco Representative
One Broadcasting/Media Representative
One EFF Representative
One Parliamentary Secretary
One AG (Attorney General) representative 
One representative from the Australian Computer Society
Two undergraduate students, no older than 21.
and Chaired by the Dean of Economics of the first university in a roster
of all AU universities.
Members will selected by random methods from amongst a list of all
persons in Australia that qualify for any of the roles.
Rules for participation for the honorary roles should be the same as
those that apply to Jury Duty. 
The oversight committee would be the only ones to be able to give EDI
instructions.
The committee members should have a six month tenure and all committee
meetings, and communication from or to any members of the committee are
to be made available publicly. 
Any attempt to lobby or influence the committee should be articled as a
capital crime.
In this manner, truly open and economically PSI will be available
through what will rapidly become a model for the rest of the world to
adopt.

I have no interest, either financial or personal in any of the companies
mentioned above. Other companies may be more suitable for the roles I
have delineated. With the exception of Google, all other company names
were utilised to allow the reader to view a vision, based on solid
reputable deliverables.