At 04:34 PM 3/22/99 -0800, Einar Stefferud wrote:
>The Internet and The Economy are very much the same, in that both are
>controlled from their edges, where individuals and companies all make
>local decisons about product and service purcahses and offereings,
>though some influence is applied with some Intergovernmental Treaties
>and Central Banks and Legistlation which provide general policy and
in other words, the economy is NOT fully controlled from the edges, due to
the very powerful forces by these various governmental forces.
So, yes, you are right, the Internet is similar. Some things are at the
edges and some are not, such as central administrative authority.
>So, the Internet is not in need of a Government any more than the
>Economy is in need of having a "Government";-)...
Ahh, an advocate for anarchy. Pray tell, where is there a successful
example of that model we can look at?
>1. The US Government has created a market structure failure by
> ineptly allowing the DNS gTLD names space to be arbitrarily
> restricted in size (only 3 useful names), thus creating an dire
not just the u.s. government. people like yourself opposed efforts to add
more names, 3 years ago.
> artificial shortage of desireable DNS names, and with the US Govt
> Contract in place with NSI, ther US Govt is entirely responsible
> for creating and maintaining the NSI monopoly. No one other than
yes, except for all the assistance the US government has gotten from
people, like yourself, who insisted on delaying efforts to implement changes.
>3. So, we are now being seduced into jabbing at NSI while the problem
On the other hand, there is quite a bit of benefit in looking closely at
the ways a commercial company will treat its customers when that company
controls the registry and is unregulated.
d/
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