At 06:04 PM 8/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>That unique history includes a standards setting procedure of RFC's.
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>That is the basis to determine the law that will govern the Internet.
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Rhonda, are you kidding here? The RFC's have NOTHING to do with Internet
governance. RFC's have no law-providing qualities whatsoever!
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>Lawyers who try to do otherwise will only be contributing to serious
>problems.
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Hogwash.
>And they will not be building on the kind of good precedent that
>was established in the CDA decision at the Philadelphia Federal
>District Court and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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More hogwash.
>The ITU is governing another telecommunications medium, not the
>Internet.
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The ITU is not governing the Internet at all.
>Gordon, are you replacing the RFC's with the ITU's decisions?
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It is you, Rhonda, wha are saying that the RFC's should replace legal ITU
decisions. This is akin to saying gasoline prices will affect automobile
colors next year - non sequitur.
>Ronda
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Gene Marsh
president, anycastNET Incorporated
330-699-8106
