OK I've finally gotten to read your 2005 diary and now realise you had almost exactly the same idea over 3 years ago.  With the much greater DKOS readership you also got  c. $500K in preliminary pledges or expressions of interest.  Impressive.

Obviously we need to learn from that project and why it didn't happen - lack of legal expertise - seems to have been the reason.  So obviously we would have to target any ET project to a country where we do have the required expertise/potential partners.

Otherwise I'm surprised that our ideas are so similar - no I hadn't seen your diary until now!  When you get the chance perhaps you could update us on what has changed since 2005 and where you think the most promising partners/jurisdictions might be.

So far we seem to be at c. 40K here with only a few people responding to date.  I will add a poll to the diary to allow people do declare expressions of interest anonymously.

notes from no w here