At 11:23 AM 8/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>FYI:
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>A Peek into the Plumber's Pipe
>John Horvath 02.08.99
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>What's Wrong with Esther Dyson
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>As chairperson of the ignominious Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
>and Numbers ( ICANN ), Esther Dyson is perhaps the most prominent
>individual affecting the future of the Internet as we move into the Third
>Millennium. Looking into her background, she is also the most dangerous,
>for under her influence there is little chance the Internet will remain an
>open and flexible broadcast medium.
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>See the rest of the story at:
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>http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5139/1.html
One of the two feedbacks sez:
It is a little too altruistic to think that something as new as internet could
possibly progress in the open fashion it has without strong champions such as
Esther. The argument made here woud suggest that there ought to be no interaction
by anyone involved in at least one other thing ... a surefire recipe for
chaos and zero learning. Overlay this with the rules which would be required
to manage such an environment, and the resultant mess would closely resemble
the "managed economies" which we saw behind the Iron Curtain and we all know
how successful they were.
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]
