Mr. Measday and Everyone,
I would take several exceptions with several of the statements that
you make here. In very general, terms the essence of your comments here
are none the less correct, though the predicates for your conclusions
are significantly unfounded. I would be more than happy to debate with
you on those off-line or on some more appropriate forum at a later
time...
Mark Measday wrote:
> ?? Hypothesis: It's not a question of the networks, it's a question of the legal
> frameworks that have jurisdiction in the final analysis over the networks.
> Unfortunately, it remains to be proven that the corpus of international and
> sovereign law is anything other than public, (in the sense of respublica) and
> that the law administers the networks rather than vice versa. Which would be
> admittedly much more interesting, I suspect. It is also not to deny that networks
> can in the long term create and change law, albeit in a slow and frustrating way.
> As soon as the G8 countries elect network managers rather than lawyers as chief
> executives rather than presidents, we can all switch. The freedoms you mention
> are temporary and get closed down if not largely used in furtherance of the
> perceived respublicae. Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> "Richard J. Sexton" wrote:
>
> > At 07:57 AM 8/3/99 -0400, Ronda Hauben wrote:
> > >And the Internet isn't "private computer networks".
> >
> > Prove it.
> >
> > This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire
> > civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of
> > dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.
> >
> > Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny]
Respectfully,
--
Brian C. Hollingsworth
Sr. Legal Advisor, International House of Justice Internet
Communications Affairs and Policy
Advisory council for Public Affairs and Internet Policy, European
Union
