Re: [IFWP] Re: [aso-policy] RE: [aso-comment] IP address holders - are they represented?

[Michael Sondow]

David R. Conrad wrote:
>
> The Internet was _NEVER_ free.  It was paid for by (to paraphrase Ayn
> Rand) sucking at the government's tit.

Oh, I didn't mean free in the monetary sense. I meant free in the
sense that all networks were equal, had equal access, were equally
connected to all others. Isn't that so? Whereas now there is a
hierarchy of networks: my ISP is a subnet of his upstream provider,
which may be a subnet of verio.net, etc.


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