Richard:
At 09:37 PM 7/11/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>And then people chould choose which version of the root they
>wanted. The heavily regulated Becky Burr/Trademark Lobby root
>or the other one run by the net community.
>
I know what model I will choose. And we both know what model corporate
America will choose. (I can only speak for two corporations, but I believe
they represent the view that will be taken by MANY)
>I think thats a swell idea and if big busines wants to get
>a DNS NOT FOUND error on http://diet-coke.faq while the
>geek community gets say, information about a soft drink, brought to
>you by people that still remember free speech, then I'd say
>we've built gpvernments and big business the kind of Internet
>they want, while not, as a community betraying the open
>principles the Internet was founded on.
>
Maybe you've hit on something here. Let's go back 12 years and split the
net! But let's make sure they have separate roots. Then, in 5 years, the
government can get jealous and try to reclaim the "commercial" Internet due
to national security!
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