At 05:58 PM 8/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Its disappointing Gordon that you make fun rather than try to understand
>>>the distinction being made and try to help to clarify rather
>>>than obfuscate.
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>>Ronda, it is you who obfuscates but assuming you know more about
>>international telecommunications law and policy development than tony.
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>>if you think that the only thing that defines the internet is its RFCs
>>you are incredibly naive.
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>I could say all Sears stores were "public" too, but if you aksed
>me to prove it I'd be hard pressed to do that.
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They are available for public use, therefore they are public. That does
not infer the public owns the Sears stores.
>There's a difference between "the public can use it" to "the public
>owens it".
Yes.
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>Show me ONE PIECE of the Internet that is deeded to the public. Just
>one router... one circuit... one.
The router at our local public library, which is paid for by taxpayer
dollars and, therefore, is owned by the public (and there are many examples
of this). However, that is not the point. Most of the interconnecting
pieces of the Internet are owned and controlled by *private* organizations
and made available for *public* use. They are not, by and large, owned by
the public.
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Gene Marsh
president, anycastNET Incorporated
330-699-8106
