"Follow the Law" computing

I posted about a subject that I thought this group may like to chew
on.

- There is a theory out there about using cloud technologies--both
public and private--to save on operational costs (such as electricity
and cooling) by moving compute load over the course of an earth day to
the dark side of the planet. It is generally called "follow the
moon".

- However, both Canada and France have provided examples of policies
set with the Geopolitical realities of "the cloud" in mind. (Canada
prohibits public IT projects from running in US data centers due to
the Patriot Act, and France refuses to allow government employees to
use Blackberries as the communications are processed in the UK and US
where France fears interception risk is high.)

- So, why not consider moving workload to wherever the current task is
"most legal" using a combination of database sharding, database
replication and vmotion/livemotion. At the very least, make it damn
near impossible for a single jurisdiction to nail you with a
violation.

See http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/06/follow-law-computing.html
for the detailed rundown.

I can't shake this vision, though I know there are many holes. What
do you think?

James

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