From: Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 12:22:27 PST
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Subject: Re: new netscape servers
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On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Duncan Frissell wrote:

> However, a CA operating outside the licensing structure of current CA's
> would have very low costs and hence no investment to lose in litigation.
> Costs would be almost entirely marketing related and as long as you stayed
> out of jurisdictions with some of the new CA law, no regulatory costs or
> barriers.
> 

I don't think this is definitional.  If nothing else they can take the 
equipment.  If you don't incorporate, your personal assets are at risk; 
if you do, you have to keep a real separation between the corporation and 
yourself, pay the taxes, etc.  Ok, make it a non-profit labor of love; 
low risks, no returns, then maybe you are right.  Just hope that there ar 
no punitive or large consequential damages, and no one pierces the 
corporate veil (unlikely, I admit, but not impossible).

What law applies to a certificate used in a multi-jurisdictional
transaction is less obvious to me than I would like.  I think I have
talked a student in my seminar into writing a paper to educate me. 

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