[81278] in Cypherpunks
Re: Webpage picketing (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Thu Jun 5 17:24:32 1997
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 13:28:05 -0700
To: frissell@panix.com
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>, Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>,
cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com, trei@EINSTEIN.ssz.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970604223956.03965ddc@panix.com>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
At 10:39 PM 6/4/97 -0400, frissell@panix.com wrote:
>>'Publically funded network backbones'? Can you name one (in the US)?
>The Net is technically and legally a private value-added network.
>The last bit of the then existing backbone was privatized the weekend
>following the OKC bombing in April 1995. (No relation)
Unfortunately, this is not entirely true. Within US-occupied North
America (:-), a number of the NAPs are still government funded,
though many of the big carriers also have direct interconnections rather
than only peering through the NAPs. One of the early NAPs,
the Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX), was created specifically
to avoid the content censorship required for use of the government parts
(the old Acceptable Use Policy, which banned commercial discussion.)
In other countries, your kilometerage will vary substantially.
Also, the DNS top-levels are largely managed by governments or their
subcontractors - not just the root servers and NSI's .com/.org/etc,
but also .fr, .de, .ru, etc. Some of this may change with the IAHC plan,
but some of it won't really.
# Thanks; Bill
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