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nettime Arun Mehta: Unpacking Internet Governance
Ronda Hauben [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime Arun Mehta: Unpacking Internet Governance - reply to Morlock
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Morlock Elloi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:02
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From: Arun Mehta [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Unpacking Internet Governance]
Along with calling people names, Morlock, some
A view from New Delhi. Original to the Asiasource mailing list. Fwded
with the author's permission.
my $0.02 on the subject of Internet governance, your contribution
solicited at
http://www.india-gii.org/wiki/index.php/Presentations/WSIS
Arun
Unpacking Internet Governance -- And Finding Red
This is perhaps the most naive part of the otherwise very naive article:
Foremost among them, is the whole discussion of domain names, and who
should control them. Internet traffic is routed using IP addresses,
similar to phone numbers on the telecom network. People came up with the
clever
I know many on this list will be aware of the various technical and factual
inaccuracies in Mehta's piece (WiFi vs Bluetooth? a new one on me), even
outside of the techno-determinist rhetoric and unhelpful equation of
governance==government. Two alternative sources below that I think give a
