Did not the funds originally come from the government Doesn't that make the Internet, defacto, public property? I have great respect for Tony, but construing the net as private has caused more harm than good, i.e., ICANN. -- ken
>At 01:02 PM 3/1/02 -0700, you wrote: >>Note: There was never a public vote to privatise the Internet, >>which is (was) public property. > >No, it's not. It's a set of interconnected *private* networks. > >Tony Rutkowski went to a lot of effort to make sure the Internet >was, in a formal telecommunications legal sense a "private" network. > >If it's a "public" network" (as the MoU people kept asserting) then >the ITU has dominion over it. That's why Tony did what he did. > > >-- > Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't > change the world. It's the only thing that ever has. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
