At 07:18 PM 6/20/99 -0500, you wrote: >Bill, > >I agree completely that there must be standards, guidelines (some even >strict), rules and regulations. Utter chaos will gain us nothing but a >technological Tower of Babel. > >However, many a standard has been documented post facto. Gene: True, true. So let's "document" .com, .org, etc., and get on with it. IETF RFC's are >not all visionary conceptual documents that foresaw the need for a given >technology or methodology. Many (if not most) have been developed due to >input from the "soft underbelly" to which you refer. Ah, yes, but such input most productively consists of something other than chanting the "rights" mantra -- a refuge of the intellectually destitute who have nothing else to contribute. > >Regulation and control for their own sake is socialism. > And who would say they would not be? Not me. Been there; seen it, don't like it. :-) And by the way, Mr. Ed Gerck, you missed your chance: down in Eugene, Oregon yesterday, a group of anarchists, in their quest for a more "simple life," set out to tear down our technological world by trashing windows, hammering passing vehicles, stopping main artery traffic, etc., etc., until finally the police had stood by long enough and started making arrests. It is the anarchists who make regulation and control necessary in order that the system can survive, not the other way around. Bill Lovell
