Nov. 27, 2008
3:33 p.m.
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:38:04 -0500, Ross Rader <ross@tucows.com> wrote:
The table belongs to the users, engineers and network operators. Governments, and pretty much everyone else, are the latecomers. Scaling the discussion is a very important issue, but I certainly don't hope that your implication is that our beloved governments can solve this problem for us.
Being latecomers does not mean they are irrelevant. Some things governments are actually useful for in this context are: - Consumer protection laws (domain name registrants vs registries and registrars are an example) - Data privacy laws - Market regulation (anti-trust, etc) - Fund research - ... Patrick