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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 17:26:33 -0500 From: mo@uunet.uu.net (Mike O'Dell) To: com-priv@psi.com The notion that the Internet needs a "keeper" like the FoneCos or Bellcore or some other cosmic overseer is just plain twisted, not to mention largely impossible (thank heavens). The Internet currently spans 2.5 million computers, 25 million people, and over 40 countries - the concept that there could ever be *one* organization which could control it is beyond humorous. The Internet exists because enough people want it to exist, and it will continue to do so as long as enough people continue to want it to exist and will demonstrate that by paying for it. When they stop, it will quickly cease to exist. Sure, the Telecom Thunderlizards are lusting after *something*, but I'll lay odds that like the mammals, we can move and adapt faster than the dinasours, no matter how badly they want to eat. Yeah, some will get chomped, some will get stepped on, but that's life. You pays your money and you takes your chances. Zemza breaks. As for standards, as the OSI protocloids discovered, the only real standard is one created by Market Share, and by O'Dell's law, "No one changes basic technology for less than a real 10x improvement." This explains why bubble memories never went anywhere, why optical disks fizzled, and why The Home Selling Network can't, in the long run, support the $16 billion fiber-to-the-bellybutton dream of the would-be video vendors. That's a LOT of BLOCKBUSTER rentals..... -Mike O'Dell Resident Crank
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