[discuss] Interesting article

S Moonesamy sm+1net at elandsys.com
Wed Jan 15 17:37:35 UTC 2014


Hi Roland,
At 08:46 15-01-2014, Roland Perry wrote:
>But now we have that document on the table, I was intrigued by para 5
>(which seems to sum up quite a bit of the disbelief held by ordinary
>users):
>
>         5. For the record it is also important for me to state that
>         already in my initial contacts with Mr Twomey I mentioned my
>         first reaction (at the time when I was the Legal Counsel of the
>         United Nations) to the question of governance of the Internet.
>
>         I was actually quite taken aback that States did not join hands
>         to govern the Internet as they had done in the past every time a
>         major system for communications had been invented (post,
>         telegraph, telephone, communications by road, rail, sea, air,
>         etc.)

Yes, that would sum up the view of the everyday user.  I guess it is 
a matter of which scale a person is using to look at things.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy 




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