> The way things are moving in the Internet world, the technical
> solutions required to meet the BMAs concerns will, I suspect, be
> unlikely to need a dedicated "secure" network.
Once you can make a clinical message safe by signing it, and
private by encrypting it, then obviously the security of the
transport medium becomes simply a matter of availability. You
could use the Internet - or even the NHSnet. You would have to
worry about whether the Internet would get clogged, as Bob
Metcalfe predicts will happen this year, and whether the NHSnet
would suffer from similar problems - such as with an overloaded
firewall
Ross
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