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IP: Internet Citizens Debate How to Form Online Union
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 05:41:52 -0400
You might enjoy this one David Farber e-mail pamphleteer Internet Citizens Debate How to Form Online Union By AMY HARMON hese are the times that try a cyberpatriot's soul. Consider Jon Postel, who has served as the unflaggingly serene citizen-sentry of the Internet's address system since he began keeping track of it on a piece of notebook paper in 1969. But Postel is weary these days, and a little bit grumpy -- and not because the Internet has doubled in size yet again in the last year. It is because Postel, a University of Southern California researcher, has recently been anointed a founding father of the network's nascent political structure -- a move toward Internet "self-governance" that is being propelled by various governmental, commercial and social forces. http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/articles/29net.html
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