Jay Robert Hauben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Feb 1 1999 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
>Pennsylvania a Memorandum was issued in the case of ACLU et al vs Reno (Civil
>Action NO. 98-5591). I have not had time to read the Memorandum but have found
>the first 8 Findings of Fact interesting and so I am copying them here. The
>full Memorandum is available at:
> http://www.aclu.org/court/acluvrenoII_pi_order.html
>It is of interest to me that the opinion of the Court represented by these
>findings is never echoed by statements on the IFWP list because the
>partipants in the ICANN't process have a narrower view which serves
>their narrower interest.
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Since there seems to be some dispute over what parts of the Internet
are "private" and "public", I suggest as an exercise, interested
parties enumerate all of the extant IP (sub)networks, and obtain the
names of the network contacts from the registries that manage those
allocations. From there, ask each contact the following questions:
* What is the charter of your organization?
* From whom do you get your network connectivity, etc?
* What Internet services do you provide?
* What Internet services do you make use of?
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/ipv4-address-space is a
possible starting point, although you may wish to go to the registries
(ARIN, RIPE, etc.) directly if you wish.
When you have compiled all of this information, you can bring it back
to us, and *then* we can discuss what parts of the Internet are and
are not "private" and what services the "users" are using.
--gregbo
