[apnic-talk] Cultural Values (was: APNIC's Censorship)
>All property, Karl, is the result of common law. Some, like land or
>your chair, have been with us for millenia, so we no longer recognise
>that the notion of property itself is an invention -- but naturally it
>is. The reason your chair is yours is because of longstanding
>convention, and not because the rules of physics require it.
>
>David Conrad was merely pointing out, rationally, that what gives
>APNIC, ARIN, and the IANA itself power is not a law saying "Joe owns
>IP addresses" but the fact that providers voluntarily route based on
>those number allocations and recognise them. The "property" like
>feature of the numbers does not derive from the integers themselves
>but because of the fact that people will route them. Given this, the
>value is not granted by the government, which does not even have laws
>on the allocation of integers, but by the consent of the entire
>community.
Due to the great success of the Internet, the traditional
methods of managing Internet resources are evolving.
Some of the questions being addressed in the Green Paper are
1) who is in charge, and 2) what legal jurisdiction(s) should
apply. One difficulty in establishing the latter is that legal
jurisdictions are directly related to cultural values.
I am encouraged by recent information that suggests that
the White Paper will embrace the following . . .
At 12:25 PM 4/21/98 -0400, Jay Fenello wrote:
>In our emerging cyber-world, competition
>between ideas and cultural values must also be encouraged,
>as it is likely to lead to a new understanding of our
>connectedness. Everything we do should encourage this
>competition.
>
>Consequently, I suggest that the proper course of action
>is to support a global Internet that gives U.S. Values
>the opportunity to compete on an equal footing with other
>soveriegn and cultural values.
I would like to suggest that, rather than arguing about how
things used to be, we start working together to establish
how things *ought* to be.
For this to happen, the old guard must realize that their
success has expanded their historical management roles to
include policy issues that have traditionally been in the
governmental arena, issues like privacy, free speech, etc.
By looking forward, both sides of this debate can work
together for the greater common good.
Regards,
Jay Fenello
President, Iperdome, Inc.
404-250-3242 http://www.iperdome.com
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