I have a dream about eregs

[khandelwal]

Part of my talk is to 'dream' a little about the world that could be with regards to regulations. I'm trying to come up with a list of things that would be useful, necessary and bring regulations to the modern age. Can you think of other things?

Here are some:

• Automatic conversion or summarization of regulations into plain English. There's too much material to do this manually, automation could help.
• Analytics and heat maps on each of the regulations so that we know which parts of the regulations are most read, and re-read (in case they need to be rewritten).
• Better notice and comment: allow users to select which line, paragraph they are commenting on.
• Allow users to leave comments on parts of the regulations that they can share with others
• Automatic ways of determing: does this part of the regulation apply to me?
• Better writing tools for authors leads to fewer errors, less duplication, etc.

[cmc333333]

Random

• Model forms that are fillable/generatable per bank/whoever
• Partially-automated translation into other languages
• Blame view, which tells you when a paragraph was last modified
• In general, visualizations for the history of a reg. Think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_02QGsHzEQ, but with knowledge of regulation structure