i think what is emerging from the conversation about tc with the german government is that america's sense of patriotism and its own righteousness is not a sound basis for trust. trust occurs when each of the parties to a transaction has confidence in the others. it doesn't issue from a single party asserting a power relationship over counterparties. the german sense of feeling rebuffed in getting itself heard on issues of integrity and confidentiality is not a good sign.
your own zenophobic exhalations reveal a sort of sovereign blindness which would obviously make it difficult for you to see the issue. but it doesn't make it less real.
and second - a unified, rules-based architecture isn't likely to have sufficient flexibility to accommodate different ideas of freedom and individual rights.
so if we want a universal trust matrix, i fear that 2.0 isn't it.
assuming you are doing your usual sarcastic inversion, the fact that apple isn't it is not controversial with me.
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