IP: Internet Citizens Debate How to Form Online Union

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David Farber
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Internet Citizens Debate How to Form Online Union
By AMY HARMON


hese are the times that try a cyberpatriot's soul. 


Consider Jon Postel, who has served as the unflaggingly serene citizen-sentry of the Internet's address system since he began keeping track of it on a piece of notebook paper in 1969. But Postel is weary these days, and a little bit grumpy -- and not because the Internet has doubled in size yet again in the last year. 


 It is because Postel, a University of Southern California researcher, has recently been anointed a founding father of the network's nascent political structure -- a move toward Internet "self-governance" that is being propelled by various governmental, commercial and social forces. 




http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/articles/29net.html