Which is why we need laws governing the DNS, not committees.
-- ken
P.S. Richard: Your address: ("Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
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>At 04:36 PM 9/9/01 +0200, you wrote:
>>On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, at 16:01 [=GMT-0400], Richard J. Sexton wrote:
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>>> I agree with Gordon on this; we don't need "gevernance". We didn't have any
>>> to build the network and it's generally harder to build somehing than
>>>run it.
>>
>>That would be great. However, if you own a piece of land in my country
>>and build a house on it, the local government will pull it down, and
>>send you a bill for the costs of descrtuction, unless you had its
>>permission to build it. Of course we will not get that permission.
>
>Sure, they have a right under law to do so. No such law exists concerning the
>Internet.
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> "But at the end of the day, even if you put a calico dress on
> it and call it Florence, a pig is still a pig."
> -- Bradshaw v. Unity Marine Corp. et al., 2001 U.S. Dist.
> LEXIS 8962, (S. D. Tex., 2001).
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