Re: Additional comments - Re: [ga] Internet stability

[Dan Steinberg <synthesis@videotron.ca>]

actually none of this would surprise me at all.
My point is, the threat of government intervention, was the *Stick* waved about
during the formative process for ICANN. The implication made was if we dont
cooperate form consensus and get behind ICANN or something...governement would
intervene to ensure stability.
And now that we are experiencing the @home debacle....it will be hard to argue
against govt intervention.  We told government it could be done without then.
And now....


Ken Stubbs wrote:

> You know, we may be reaching the point where e-mail could, hypothetically ,
> be considered and "Essential Service" much like "Postal Service" or
> "telephone service"
>
> Dont be too surprised to see, as a result of a massive "potential failure"
> (like AT&T's " @home" bankruptcy) , a "regulatory style" movement towards
> declaration of e-mail as this type of service.
>
> We all know that the legitamite e-mail volume (not counting "spam")  both
> within the USA and world wide is "staggering" and the impact on business as
> well as personal communications is significant (witness the fact that i
> recieve most of my bills by e-mail rather than thru the "snail mail") of any
> significant lost of this capability would be devistating.
>
> Given this assumption, don't be too surprised to see governmental agencies
> "jumping"  on this issue in a big way and developing policies & guidelines
> for "assurance of continual e-mail service"
>
>  ken stubbs

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