Yes... but it is "just mud"...

[Marc Hurst <mhurst@fastlane.ca>]

Ever get the feeling that the internet is evolving into a bunch Lemmings?

This Internet council just goes to show you what thoes who would organize 
such a vehicle consider experts in the industry. Althoughh I do not 
approve the IAHC model it definitely is a better resemblance of what such 
an authority should actually look like.

Its incredible how (I could be wrong not knowing these people personally) 
governing jurisdictions would be so ignorant as to apoint what seems as 
big business quasi leadsership to a council that is to assist in creating 
laws for a largely (by comparison) cottage industry.

Maybe the biggest issue is how not to govern the Internet. Currently we 
are a divided industry. If we can do a good enough job governing 
ourselves in a clean and democratic manner with a speedy and effective 
response to the issues we would likely leave most governments in our 
vapour trail.

Until we can stop our own Holy War we should work towards removing the 
government intervention from our system. It is up for all of us to decide 
whether the we want the government trade protection from the big guys at 
the expense of our freedom or should we go it alone.

I prefer to go it alone and know that I would have to deal with industrial 
allies/axis in the likes of Perry Metzger and Karl Denninger than have to 
deal with three months of red tape and B.S. waiting for my CIDR block to 
come in while I piss away thousands of dollars per month on a DS circuit I 
can not turn on because I have no ip addresses for it (true).

Less regulation... more cooperation. Its time people learned how to run a 
business and those in government learned they should'nt.

One day a Lemming will fly... until then he will swim...

Marc Hurst
SKYSCAPE Communications
Toronto, Canada