Law in the Internet Society

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Too much time is spent here on background. Let's make the next
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1. Too much time is spent here on background. Let's make the next
  draft not a first introduction to the smart grid, but rather an essay on the subject for people who already know what it is and what's going on.
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At that point, we no longer need to discuss the problems that can be controlled by regulatory solutions: what the grid does in order to operate safely and efficiently does not require the sale of user data to the market, and prohibitions of side businesses to regulated utilities is familiar regulatory fare.
 
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2. At that point, we no longer need to discuss the problems that can be controlled by regulatory solutions: what the grid does in order to operate safely and efficiently does not require the sale of user data to the market, and prohibitions of side businesses to regulated utilities is familiar regulatory fare.

3. Similarly, we can simplify by eliminating the idea of technical

  measures to anonymize data: electrons are delivered to a physical address.
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But you have not yet addressed the issues that are actually of importance to the social analysis: including (1) how the software constituting the grid (and the terms of its freedom vel non as software) can change the economics of the power business, and its safety; (2) what the security issues actually are and how to deal with them; (3) the issues presented to the smart grid by renewable (which are also contingent) power sources; and (4) whether end-points in the grid should work for the power suppliers or for the consumers who own them.
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4. But you have not yet addressed the issues that are actually of importance to the social analysis: including (1) how the software constituting the grid (and the terms of its freedom vel non as software) can change the economics of the power business, and its safety; (2) what the security issues actually are and how to deal with them; (3) the issues presented to the smart grid by renewable (which are also contingent) power sources; and (4) whether end-points in the grid should work for the power suppliers or for the consumers who own them.

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