At 06:57 PM 7/15/99 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I agree that there may be cultural differences, but I disagree this being
>one of these. Maybe because that, among all people on the Earth, Italians
>are among the most suspicious about Governments. Or maybe because our
>Constitution (sorry to counterdict Esther) also states that power resides to
>the people (literal translation sounds like: "The soverainity belongs to the
>people, who exerces it in the forms and within the limits of this
>Constitution").
>
>So, it's not a cultural difference, it is a practical (and pragmatical)
>approach that makes me think that, failure to have the Net governed by a
>direct democracy involving at least a good part of all users worldwide, I
>much prefer to have involvment of governments (for instance, but also
>corporations, user associations, ... I would say "institutional" actors)
>than giving the whole thing to a few hundred individuals on this or another
>E-mail list.
>
>Regards
>Roberto
Heady and romantic stuff to be sure, Roberto, but dead wrong. :-)
The Internet is not some vast public resource that is the birthright
of every living soul. It's not, of course, it's a club of people that
use an enhanced service over existing telecommunications circuits. They
and they alone determine what names will be used. Governments role in this
is a user - a member of the club, and have no lesser or greater rights than
anybody else. Individuals not in the club have no standing.
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