Internet Architecture and Operation: 'SupraNational' Rather Than 'International' Governance Roger Cl

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Internet Architecture and Operation'Supra-Nation
al' Rather Than'International' GovernanceRoger
Clarke, Xamax Consultancy, Canberra
http//www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/
...... IGCLPC02 .html, .pptCyberspace Law
Policy CentreSydney, 25 October 2002

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• "There was no analogyfor the way in whichGreat
  A'Tuin the world turtlemoved against the
  galactic night.When you are ten thousand miles
  long,your shell pocked with meteor cratersand
  frosted with comet ice,there is absolutely
  nothingyou can realistically be likeexcept
  yourself"Pratchett (1988), p.13

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• Information wants to be free - Stewart Brand,
  1984
• Everything you know about I.P. is wrong. There
  is a new economy of mind. Information wants to
  change - John Perry Barlow, 1994
• The likely best course for content providers is
  to distribute I.P. free in order to sell services
  and relationships - Esther Dyson, 1995
• The Clinton Administration plans to make illegal
  the browsing of a borrowed book, lending a
  magazine to a friend, and copying a news article
  for your files, for works distributed via digital
  networks - Pam Samuelson, 1996
• In the Network Economy, follow the free - Kevin
  Kelly 97