[9641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Murkowski anti-spam bill could be a problem for ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Thu May 29 18:58:30 1997
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 13:18:35 -0700
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>, nanog@merit.edu, smd@clock.org
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
In-Reply-To: <199705291830.LAA01755@quest.pluris.com>
At 11:30 AM 29-05-97 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
>... The Internet has evolved to the point
>where politicans make standards.
>
Politicians pass legislation. Technologists create standards. Standards
enable. Legislation prohibits. Standards are proactive. Legislation is
reactive. If no standards, then legislation. It makes a whole lot of sense
to me and is completely unsurprising.
Legislators address public issues with legislation if industries fail to
act in the public interest -- that is part of their job. How many times
have the industry groups of *other* industries acted to stave off
restrictive legislation? It's part of the well-known process. That's the
truth and those are the consequences of failure to act.
--Kent
