[ SHOWGSD-L ] NAIS Part Four
- From: Stormy435@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:49:24 EDT
> WHAT'S THE COALITION PLAN?
>
> The coalition held a closed meeting in Chicago on August 16th. (A
> few other groups were invited: I believe the National Animal Control
> Association was one, also, I think, various microchip makers.) They
> adopted a position paper which they intend to push APHIS to
> implement. In summary, that position is:
>
> 1. There must be universal scanners for Animal Welfare Act (AWA)
> licensees, ditto state and local government. These scanners must
> read all 125 kHz chips AND the 134.2 kHz (ISO) chip. They want
> manufacturers to give away any internal secrets of their scanners and
> they want them to make the new scanners available free or at low
> cost.
>
> (Translation: New scanners are required and they must read Banfield's
> chips. If a U.S. chipmaker's patented technology gets in the way of
> someone else building a scanner, that technology must be released.
> Banfield's competitors must help pay for the new scanners to read
> Banfield's chips.
>
> 2. USDA is to require that all chips used by AWA licensees meet a
> standard and say that the only standard is the ISO standard.
>
> (Translation: USDA licensees must use only the type of chips sold by
> Banfield -- though doubtless other companies would sell them too.)
>
> 3 APHIS should form a task force to develop a prototype of a
> national pet microchipping registration and database system. This
> system should include a Google-type search. The task force should
> have members from animal control, vets, and microchip makers/sellers.
>
> (Translation: The people who want to use the data should be asked
> what should be in the data base and how to make it convenient for
> them. No need for anyone whose pets might be IN that data base to
> be represented -- No CFA, no NAIA, no ADOA, no AKC, no MOFED ...
>
> (This would be effectively a PUBLIC data base for opponents of pet
> ownership and breeding. It might or might not be available to the
> general public.)
>
> 4. APHIS should make clear that this whole idea came from the
> industry and animal welfare advocates; it IS NOT a government-imposed
> system. "This won't be any kind of government-run database that
> might hurt public and corporate privacy."
>
> (Translation: LIE about how and why this is happening and what
> consequences might be expected.)
>
> Pretty cool, huh? The answer to how you get past the fact that
> nobody wants your incompatible product is you get the government to
> say that AWA licensees, state and local governments (read: animal
> shelters) have to buy it and your competitors have to share the costs
> of the massive conversion that's required. You get to say how the
> data can be used, and you don't take a PR hit for all this because
> the government is going to tell everyone that this was an industry
> and animal welfare idea.
>
> HEY, I got a bunch of Virginia road dust here. I claim it's worth
> $1000 per handful but my idiot neighbors aren't buying. You think I
> could get a federal law that REQUIRES them to buy it from me? Well,
> hey, why not? Oh, and the law should say that this wasn't my idea,
> it is for their, ah, health.
"You may never know what results come from your action.
But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
Mahatma Gandhi
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