When pray tell did the Govt pay for my piece of the Internet.
I do not recall ever getting any funds from them to pay for it.
I sure would appreciate getting back my $70,000 spent on Internet
stuff over the years. Somehow I expect you are not counting anything
spent by non-govt people to
There goes Internet democracy
At 2/25/02 12:08 PM, Chris Chiu wrote:
During a private retreat, the President of the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers, M Stuart Lynn, proposed vast changes to ICANN's
governing structure These plans call for the abolition of ICANN public
At 01:02 PM 3/1/02 -0700, you wrote:
Note: There was never a public vote to privatise the Internet,
which is (was) public property.
No, it's not. It's a set of interconnected *private* networks.
Tony Rutkowski went to a lot of effort to make sure the Internet
was, in a formal telecommunications
Did not the funds originally come from the government
Doesn't that make the Internet, defacto, public property?
I have great respect for Tony, but construing the net as
private has caused more harm than good, i.e., ICANN.
-- ken
At 01:02 PM 3/1/02 -0700, you wrote:
Note: There was never a
The Internet started in the military for decentralized communication,
then expanded to universities with government research contracts,
then expanded to state-sponsored universities, then private colleges
universities, then the general public. I stand by my first statement.
The net always was
At 02:26 PM 3/1/02 -0700, you wrote:
The Internet started in the military for decentralized communication,
then expanded to universities with government research contracts,
then expanded to state-sponsored universities, then private colleges
universities, then the general public. I stand by my
groups that own that resource, in this case the US people. So if the ccTLDs
are treated as public resources under the control of national governments,
They aren't. rfc1591 waa skillfully worded to prevent that.
that part certainly cannot be said to be an interconnected private network.
Who
Am I mistaken, or did the DoC's White Paper call for management of the
domain name system by the private sector?
And what was that ICANN Article of Incorporation about lessening the
burdens of government?
Jay Fenello wrote:
At 2/25/02 12:08 PM, Chris Chiu wrote:
During a private retreat,
And outside of the USA, Internet development mostly was funded by governments.
The U.S department of commerce had no right to make unilateral choices for
them.
The best way to get public accountability is to assert the Internet is a
public utility,
the same as the airwaves, subject to the will of
At 04:19 PM 3/1/02 -0700, you wrote:
And outside of the USA, Internet development mostly was funded by governments.
An interesting assertion. Can you back it up?
First of all there really wasn't that much Internet development
to speak of. In fact it didn't exists. Perhaps you're thinking
of the
Examples are any nation on earth where the government owns the phone
company, India for example. I'm more of a free marketeer than a socialist,
to be sure, but by natural law, if the people rightfully own the government
that constructs the network of interconnected networks, like a city builds
At 11:06 PM 3/1/02 -0700, you wrote:
Examples are any nation on earth where the government owns the phone
company, India for example. I'm more of a free marketeer than a socialist,
to be sure, but by natural law, if the people rightfully own the government
that constructs the network of
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