Re: Protocols at the Point of a Gun

[tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)]

At 1:48 PM 4/10/96, Duncan Frissell wrote:

>Well this is as good a time and place as any to ask the question that
>none of the opposition seems to have asked (perhaps because they don't
>know enough to ask):  How do you force geographically dispersed nodes
>on a distributed network to adopt a set of officially mandated protocols?
>
>But first a reading assignment:  "How Anarchy Works--Inside the Internet
>Engineering Task Force" from Wired.
>
>http://www.hotwired.com/wired/3.10/departments/electrosphere/ietf.html

I'd also recommend Michael Froomkin's article "The Internet as a Source of
Regulatory Arbitrage," available at

http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/arbitr.htm

It gets into the nature of IETF-type stuff, especially vis-a-vis the
difficulty jurisdictions have in enforcing parochial rules.

--Tim May

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