Re: [IFWP] Re: Hilights from today's hearing

[Kent Crispin]

On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 03:24:42PM -0400, Diane Cabell wrote:
> 
[...]

> If there's an "it", then at most, who would "it" belong to? It
would only belong to the Internet
> community at large if it were in the public domain.  That's pretty
hard to accomplish these
> days, believe it or not.  You practically have to beat your
copyrights with a club to extinguish
> them.  It might belong to the registrants on the list, rather than
the Internet community at
> large.  Either way, not all the registrants/community are US
citizens ergo, the USG is not
> necessarily the appropriate rep.

You missed my point, I think.  There is no one else with standing 
vis a vis NSI to do anything at all about it.  The USG is it, not 
because they are  the best representative of the Internet community, 
but because there is absolutely no other entity in any position to 
do anything for us.

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Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
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