[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William X. Walsh) wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:48:12 -0400 (EDT), Ronda Hauben
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>Jay Fenello wrote:
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>>At 06:07 PM 7/5/99 , Michael Sondow wrote:
>>>>Sydney Morning Herald, July 1999
>>>>
>>>>Net dispute: Govt may step in=3D20
>>>>
>>>>"Governments will end up taking control of the distribution of
>>>>Internet addresses if the Internet industry cannot resolve its
>>>>differences, according to Dr Paul Twomey, the Australian head of an
>>>>international body set up to study the issue."
>
>
>>>Instead of a small cabal making decisions
>>>affecting every Internet user in the world,
>>>200 plus governments will now have to agree!
>
>>>Why, that's the *best* news I've heard all=3D20
>>>year ;-)
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>>Why are those being presented as the two alternatives?
>
>>You would by that logic deny that the Internet was ever born or =
>developed.
>
>>That's why those who aren't interested in learning from the history of
>>the development of the Internet its lessons do go round in circles.
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>>Ronda
>=46ace it Ronda, there is no way the USG can or will manage the internet
>on its own.
>Times have changed.
Why do you assume that the USG managed the Internet on its own?
There was a cooperation that made it possible for the Internet to
be born and develop.
That is why learning something about the history would be helpful
instead of just assuming it is whatever is created in ones own
head :-(
There was a significant collaboration to build the Internet
and my proposal instead of ICANN proposed building a prototype
to create a collaboration.
ICANN is the opposite. Its the vested interests involved in a
power play and there is no reason for them to pay any mind
to any but their own narrow interests.
Ronda
Netizens: On the History and Impact
of Usenet and the Internet
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
in print edition ISBN 0-8186-7706-6
