Re: War of Internet Governance: 1995 -????

[Steve Heflin <steve@itw.net>]

> 
>  Small businesses, mom and pop ISP's, WWW developers and
>  unfinanced individuals have equal right to the namespace
>  as your corporations. I warn you that .WTV and .FCN are
>  the domains I would like to steward into existance and
>  service. Anyone who disallows me the opportunity to serve
>  as a result of discriminatory practices is asking for
>  trouble. Why? Because the Internet is a medium of
>  INDIVIDUALS and small ventures like mine. It is *not*
>  the sole and exclusive playground of corporations. You
>  piss off the net and the net will eventually turn. Can
>  you say Canter and Segel?
> 

Man, don't misunderstnad me:)

I am not a corporate roller but I also don't jump up and down spouting
about a free world with no walls and a revolution against the system!;)

AND - what corporate black empire is a member of CORE? IBM? MSoft? Disney?
Pillsbury? The pretend company run by InterNIC? (oops, well, maybe THAT
one...)
 
Using your logic of discrimination because you want to use your own TLDs,
I guess I am also discriminated against because I do not have my own
recognized cable 'faith and healing' show - in fact my cable company has
no public access channels! I should scream discrimination - they impede
my ability to fleece old people who need something to believe in!

[sarcasm] 
 
>  Because for the vast majority of humanity US$10,000, five
>  staff members, insurance and a US$300K line of credit add
>  up to several life time's worth of earnings if that. The
>  world is a desparate place shackled by poverty, famine,
>  disease and want. Your half a million entry point has
>  effectively rendered the namespace as forever out of the
>  control of anyone but the wealthy.

What do you suggest since this concept (given to me as the author) is not
a good one?

I already know and hear you about it being free to every jack and jill in
the world.  How does that solve anything?  Put 12 people in single file
and move them from one side of the room to the other.  Reasonably slow at
first as the organize.  But after time, they are somwhat in unison and get
it done.  

NOW - make the room the same size and add oh - 1 million people.  Want to
see chaos?  Want to see going no where fast in an applicaable form? Does  
this make any sense to you?

> 
>  Then I don't have to listen to anything the CORE tries to
>  institute no do any of the 190 governments worldwide. Not
>  only that we are all free - by extension of logic - to do
>  as we please without regard for law, international process,
>  national soveriegnity, human rights, civil liberties and
>  so on because that is exactly what CORE is doing. And Internic
>  for that matter. These rogue organizations are steam-rolling
>  treaty and negotiation processes that have evolved over the
>  millenia in order to attempt to monopolize a new, virtual
>  realm: The Internet.
> 
>  And we will resist these attempts until they cease.
> 
Power to the people! - joke... :)

> 
>  TeleVirtually Yours,
> 
>  Bob Allisat
> 
>  Director, World TeleVirtual Network             http://www.wtv.net
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> 
> 


Regards,

Steve Heflin, President
Internet Tidal Wave - Business Internet Solutions
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