But Richard, going along with your ISP is a form of voting. Not everyone votes in their best interest all the time, especially if they don't have all the needed information, but then, not having chosen to get the right information (or knowledge) they have again voted their choices.
We can work to educate, but we cannot force them to choose as we would choose. That is what ICANN is trying to do;-)... Or we can work to make it easier for ISPs to offer more than ICANN offers. Like we can offer ISPS the option of giving all their users a choice of roots services. Indeed, some customers want a limited set of TLDs or even SLDs. I know of a group of families near Huntington beach that carefully subscribe to a filtered ISP to protect their children. We need to find ways to enable more ISPs to offer such selective services to those who want them. This is just one more way to add value to the DNS. There is no rule or law that says that a customer cannot have such choices, or that ISPs must not offer such choices. If ISPs cannot or will not offer selectivity, then each user needs to do it on their won with local host filtering, which is no doubt very difficult for most users. Cheers...\Stef At 11:38 PM -0500 3/20/02, Richard J. Sexton wrote: > >This is why network democracy is more alligned with the nature > >of the Internet than the despotic technocracy in power today. > >Network democracy begins when you operate your own server. Until then you are >a serf to your ISPs kingdom. > > > >-- > Clique \Clique\, n. [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See Click, v. i.] > A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or > for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used > in a bad sense. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
