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Thoughts and Commentary by Karl Auerbach
Locus ab auctoritate est infirmissimus  ("The argument from authority is the weakest.") -- Thomas Aquinas

What would the internet be like had there been no ICANN - January 28, 2008

Suppose that back in 1997 the US Department of Commerce, via its National Telecommunications and Administration Administration (NTIA) had not adopted, without any demonstrable source of legal authority, that hangnail from the Reagan-Thatcher school of government - the idea that governmental powers are best exercised by private actors without the nuisances of public constraint and public oversight. There is a branch of fiction known as "Alternative History". These are stories of what might have..
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