On 06:27 04/12/03, Paul Vixie said: >there's plenty to worry about wrt the big boys controlling things, but the >internet is definitionally and constitutionally uncontrollable. yay! This seems untrue in terms of operations if I refer myself to the USG relations with the nets. This sounds like talking about a serial killer to me if you talk about the impact of the Internet on real people's life. I am afraid it is also technically extremely confuse. The missing subjects and mssing URLs in: http://www.iab.org/documents/resources/architectural-issues.html say a lot to non internuts trying to understand it. Unless you might have a better focal portal? Right now, many Governments uses http://whitehouse.gov/pcipb as an entry point into the internet issues.
And they are WRONG!
Once again, they deal with the Internet in the wrong forum. They are trying to deal with issues with people who have no power or at best proxy power on how the Internet is made. It is a waste of resources.
The old schema of political organisation and telecommunication is being challenged by the Internet and people try to hold onto it, like they hold on their monopolies, or their office.
There would be here a sense in the Internet of "alter mondialisation" that I would not be surprised. Surprisingly too, it is the most "communist" (Internet is for Everyone) project that ever came out of the USA.
So we better spend our energies explaining to traditional structures, where the decisions are made, by who and why... Get them a plane ticket to the next IETF, INET, IAB, ICANN meeting and stop to move this discussion to places where decisions cannot be implemented... (Don't ask a bus driver to change the traffic lights...)
Cheers
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