IP: Re: Rocky Start to Debate Over Public Role in Internet

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:26:18 -0400
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu, ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com
>From: Jock Gill <jgill@penfield-gill.com>
>Subject: Re: IP: Rocky Start to Debate Over Public Role in Internet
>Cc: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff@iconia.com>
>
>Dave & Geoff,
>
>The question I would put to ICANN is whether or not they view the Internet 
>as a Public Commons or a private market? My view is that the Internet 
>should be treated as a public commons  and not as a market.  A commons may 
>support markets and market activities but that does not make the whole a 
>market.  I doubt that allowing market forces to act as the "steward" of 
>the Internet Commons will work for the public good.  It sounds, however, 
>as if  Carl Bildt would prefer to treat the commons as a corporate entity 
>to be administered by corporate means to corporate standards for corporate 
>ends.
>
>Jock



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