Ronda, > Thus it is flies in the face of the history and development > of the Internet and of the history and development of > science and government as they have evolved since the > earliest days in the U.S. Your colleague Eben Moglen wrote a nice piece last year on the Information Railroad, at http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/ The image of the trappers and traders getting the Amerindians sozzled on firewater while taking over their lands also comes to mind. Interesting in this connection is a recent post by Eric Brunner at http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/icann- current/msg00079.html kerry
