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Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Oct 1 15:26:00 1998

Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 15:08:28 -0400
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
To: Aaron Goldblatt <aglists@goldblatt.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199809011158.4749220.7@marvin.csgint.com>


On October 1, 1998 at 11:50 aglists@goldblatt.net (Aaron Goldblatt) wrote:
 > Previous attempts by government entities to regulate the Internet have been
 > characterized by a total unfamiliarity with the medium.  I have no reason
 > to believe that any future attempt to regulate the Internet will be marked
 > by any more competence than I've seen thus far.

Which of course begs the question as to whether or not it will be
better than the current situation.

As the expression goes, even a bad plan is better than no plan at all.


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