IP: Re: Rocky Start to Debate Over Public Role in Internet

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:26:18 -0400
> To: farber () cis upenn edu, ip-sub-1 () majordomo pobox com
> From: Jock Gill <jgill () penfield-gill com>
> Subject: Re: IP: Rocky Start to Debate Over Public Role in Internet
> Cc: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
>
> Dave & Geoff,
>
> The question I would put to ICANN is whether or not they view the Internet 
> as a Public Commons or a private market? My view is that the Internet 
> should be treated as a public commons  and not as a market.  A commons may 
> support markets and market activities but that does not make the whole a 
> market.  I doubt that allowing market forces to act as the "steward" of 
> the Internet Commons will work for the public good.  It sounds, however, 
> as if  Carl Bildt would prefer to treat the commons as a corporate entity 
> to be administered by corporate means to corporate standards for corporate 
> ends.
>
> Jock



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