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Sounds like an Oligarchy rather than a congress.. I am reminded by a quote, "Communism and Fascism looks great on paper and in theory, its a wonderful system. Try to put it into practical use, and watch it crumble like a house of cards." We have a wonderful system right now, with a quasi-democratic way-of-doing. Why ruin that by giving control over to "big brother" (in this case, big business?). Great.. Next time I log on, my PPP session will be SPONSORED by Intel.. Scared of that.. Just my $.02. -------------------------------- Jesse W. Wheeler Quality Assurance Analyst Reynolds & Reynolds HSD-PDX Email: [email protected] -------------------------------- >---------- >From: Declan McCullagh[SMTP:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, July 10, 1997 8:53 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Domain names and "The Network $olution", from The Netly News > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >X-FC-URL: Fight-Censorship is at http://www.eff.org/~declan/fc/ >Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 07:48:05 -0700 (PDT) >From: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]> >Sender: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: FC: Domain names and "The Network $olution", from The Netly News > >*********** > >http://pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1155,00.html > >The Netly News Network (http://netlynews.com) >July 10, 1997 > >The Network $olution >by Declan McCullagh ([email protected]) > > It could have been the perfect way to liberate the Net from the > much-reviled monopoly of Network Solutions Inc., the company that > handles almost all U.S. domain name registrations. Backed by > well-regarded groups such as the Internet Society, the seven-page > proposal promised to reduce prices, increase choices -- and best of > all, really put the screws to everyone's least favorite domain name > registrar. > > But a month before the curtain is set to lift on a host of new > domains to supplement .com and .org, the ambitious plan suddenly seems > as doomed as the recently extirpated Communications Decency Act. Not > only did just one government, Albania, sign the "Memorandum of > Understanding" (MoU), but the U.S. actively opposed it. So did Network > Solutions, after they realized with gut-wrenching dismay the > consequences of losing their lucrative monopoly on .com. > > Yesterday another group of MoU critics met in Washington to form > the Open Internet Congress, which hopes to wrest control of Net > governance from "hobbyists" and "volunteers" and haul it into the > mainstream. "I don't want a bunch of volunteers playing around and > trying to run the show. I don't want petty battles over who's in > charge and who's keeping the lights on," says Andrew Sernovitz, the > president of the Association for Interactive Media, which organized > the summit. Sernovitz envisions a ruthlessly commercialized cyberspace > that's safe for companies like IBM, Intel, NBC and Time Warner > (Netly's corporate big brother) that cough up $9,000 a year to be > governing members of AIM. > > The talk yesterday was of revolution. Sernovitz spoke about > holding an Internet "Constitutional Convention" this fall. He passed > out supportive columns quoting from "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine. I > even heard folks call the MoU the move that will spark the online > equivalent of the Boston Tea Party. (Led, presumably, by firms like > Time Warner? Since that media giant also owns CNN, you can be sure the > revolution will indeed be televised.) > >[...] > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This list is public. To join fight-censorship-announce, send >"subscribe fight-censorship-announce" to [email protected] >More information is at http://www.eff.org/~declan/fc/ > >
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