[9664] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: bill summary: Telecommunications Act
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Gingery)
Sat Jan 15 19:27:26 1994
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 17:21:42 -0700 (MST)
From: Bruce Gingery <lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu>
To: Dave Hughes <dave@oldcolo.com>
Cc: adam fast <adamfast@u.washington.edu>, compriv <com-priv@psi.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0pLDLA-0008WCC@oldcolo.com>
... David Hughes <dave@oldcolo.com> wrote...
[responding to my questions about Washington's pending legislation]
-> And why should I care what Washington does? Because State
-> governments have a habit of copying each others 'solutions'
-> when public pressure says 'Do something.' Colorado's legislators
-> and Governor's office are feeling that pressure to 'Do something'
-> about a state information infrastructure. And they are still
-> thinking a 'top down' solution.
And there's plenty of precident for that! Take FIRE codes. Cheyenne
Wyoming had a superior connector for Hydrants to that in "standard" use
but had to conform to the standards to allow for "shared services",
loosing the better connector a couple decades ago, and incurring the
expense for a downward conversion.
Most "codes" are copied, at times in their entierty, from state to state.
This is even more true where a new topic is addressed, and the lawmakers
are pressured and feel a lack of expertise.
Let's keep innovation open -- not squash it with local (on a world-wide
perspective) laws which squash what "we're best at".
Bruce Gingery lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu
