[35840] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Statements against new.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Fri Mar 16 12:33:09 2001
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From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowledge.com>
To: "Miles Fidelman" <mfidelman@civicnet.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:08:59 -0000
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> well... there are international bodies that handle other
> telecommunications matters
And one of the primary reasons the Internet exists in the open and
transparent form it does today is because those bodies (CCITT->ITU-T etc.)
have not been involved in most of the research and engineering.
On the other hand, the 'net is now so ubiquitous that maybe maturity brings
that level of self-interest based regulation.
Peter
