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Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:56:38 -0400
On September 30, 1998 at 17:26 aglists () goldblatt net (Aaron Goldblatt) wrote:
I think it's beginning to become obvious, to me anyhow, that any claim that the internet is better regulated by those who are involved in its engineering is a total failure as a concept.You're therefore suggesting that the Internet is better regulated by those who are totally unfamiliar with it. Or, in other words, you want your heart transplant performed by a 10-year-old.
Totally unfamiliar with it? You mean, for example, that people in the FCC are totally unfamiliar with, say, telephony? Or that they're all ten year olds? People who work for the FAA know something about air traffic issues and aren't ten year olds. People who work for CDC know something about epidemiology and aren't ten year olds. Etc. Such regulatory agencies always employ people knowledgeable in the technical aspects of the subject. What's peculiarly missing in the internet realm is much anyone with any skills in building processes by which decision-making and review of policies can occur. That's why, I assume, raising any policy or resource issue is generally met with a flood of sarcastic remarks, non-sequitars, and in particular a total lack of process by which to address such an issue. It's completely missing. You may believe that the above regulatory bodies are less than perfect. But what you can't do is assert that what goes on in their stead on the net works any better. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs () world std com | http://www.world.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989 *oo*
Current thread:
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Sep 30)
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- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Roeland M.J. Meyer (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Barry Shein (Oct 01)
- Change begins with the self (was Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?) J.D. Falk (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Aaron Goldblatt (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Barry Shein (Oct 01)
- Who makes policy?, was (Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely , rogue and should be removed?) Chris Kilbourn (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Peter Stemwedel (Oct 01)
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- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 01)
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- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Dean Anderson (Oct 01)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Dean Anderson (Oct 02)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Tom Pinard (Oct 02)