At 02:06 PM 3/1/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Did not the funds originally come from the government
>Doesn't that make the Internet, defacto, public property?
No.
So did the funds for hydrogen bomb research. This doesn't mean
you get your own nuke.
>I have great respect for Tony, but construing the net as
>private has caused more harm than good, i.e., ICANN.
No, undue influence has. Different people on the ICANN
board would have yielded different results. They were
picked behind the scenes, but Roger Cochetti of IBM
(not at NSI, err, verisign) and Ira "Healt debacle"
Magaziner and one of the criteria was that they not
know anything about DNS.
Who would have ever have though 4 years later that
they still don't.
Just as you cannot expect a valid conclusion from
flawed premises, the problem is as much the board
as it was Sims hopless structure of the current
icann (RIP).
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