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> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:13:18 PST, james woodyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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> > In other words, I think it might help the U.S. Senate to know that they
> > won't have to wait a year for the FCC to make a "negative determination"
> > according to Section 3.(c), i.e. they can go directly to requiring the
> > vendors and users of "digital media devices" in the United States to
> > adopt Internet standards of its own making rather than those of the IETF.
>
> > Let's see how well Congress likes the taste of *that* medicine...
>
> Oh, they'll love it. You'll get a protocol designed by lobbyists for lobbyists.
>
> Let's not find out.
It exists: remember that protocol suite: ISO OSI?
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William Allen Simpson
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