Re: [ifwp] Re: Battle Heats Up - but the real issues are still being hidden

["Richard J. Sexton" <richard at vrx.net>]

At 07:13 AM 10/6/98 -0400, Bob Allisat wrote:
>
>Ronda Hauben wrote:
>>An important prototype battle currently is going on over the question
>>of who is to control the Internet?
>
>Richard Sexton replied:
>+ Nobody controls it; it's a collection of private networks.
>
> When a collection of private
> networks carry common currency
> they inevitably fall into the
> public domain and must suffer
> reasonable governmental over-
> sight and regulation.

You want the government to tell you how to behave 
on your own network ? Bob, I know you better than that...

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