Beautiful. But who gave you your IP number?
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, at 19:54 [=GMT-0400], Gordon Cook wrote:
> > >> We need to find our own solution to the new TLD problem, and the
> >>> cooperative maintenance of the Virtual Inclusive Root.
> >>
> >>Burying your head in the sand and wishing the problem away won't make it
> >>so.
> >>
> >>Ignore ICANN to your own detriment.
> >
> >Perhaps, but saying "these ISO protocols suck and should not be used"
> >was not effective. Making TCP/IP work, was.
> >
>
> and as stef just taught me yesterday as part of a discussion of end to end
> was that by having TCP stacks on both our machines that we control we
> can pass ip datagrams across the network in such a way that a central
> administrator can not control them. my stack does a checksum on what
> you sent me and if the sum checks i know that the IP bit stream you
> sent is what i received.
>
> the lesson here is that the tools for control reside on the edge
> machine on my desktop and the one on your desktop....and the pipe
> connecting our desktops is empty.....it is just like one of those old
> air blown pneumatic tubes.
>
> forget laws ken, laws give someone the ability to insert a box in the
> middle to interfere with our ip datagrams.....
>
> read lessig on laws and cyberspace if you wanna know what laws are worth
>
> or read the legend of the grands inquisitor from the brothers karamazov
> ICANN is the inquisitor sent to rule over us
>
> the inquisitor explains to christ why he will burn him at the stake.
> christ routes around the inquisitor by kissing him on the cheek and
> sending him out from the dungeon in seville into the night
> air....effectively ignoring the threat....
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