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Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today?
From: Steven Champeon <schampeo () hesketh com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:39:06 -0400
on Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:23:44AM -0700, ennova2005-nanog () yahoo com wrote:
The users have an expectation that their "access to the Internet" works like a utility. When you say the "power is shut off" you don't expect to expand on whether the power grid in your state had a cascading failure but people on the other coast still have power and when your "water supply is shut off" does not mean that all the people in the world can't get a drop. It just means that her "Internet is off" and as far as she is concerned the whole Internet/Power/Water supply might as well be "off"
Yep. I eventually just trained myself into hearing "my Internet access" when I heard "the Internet" from someone who doesn't know what the Internet is. e.g., s/Is the Internet down?/Is my Internet access down?/ YMMV, Steve -- hesketh.com/inc. v: +1(919)834-2552 f: +1(919)834-2553 w: http://hesketh.com/ antispam news, solutions for sendmail, exim, postfix: http://enemieslist.com/ rambling, amusements, edifications and suchlike: http://interrupt-driven.com/
Current thread:
- Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Sean Donelan (Jun 22)
- Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Patrick W. Gilmore (Jun 22)
- Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Peter Ferrigan (Jun 23)
- Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Robert Boyle (Jun 23)
- Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 23)
- [OT] Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Edward B. DREGER (Jun 23)
- Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? ennova2005-nanog (Jun 23)
- Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Steven Champeon (Jun 23)
- Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Peter Ferrigan (Jun 23)
- Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Patrick W. Gilmore (Jun 22)
- Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Justin M. Streiner (Jun 23)
- Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 26)
- RE: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Frank Bulk (Jun 26)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Scott Weeks (Jun 23)
- Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Roy (Jun 23)
- RE: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today? Jason Gauthier (Jun 23)