Rebuttal to Mr. Weisberg's insinuations

[Jim Fleming]

On Thursday, July 17, 1997 10:18 PM, Peter Veeck[SMTP:pveeck at regionalweb.texoma.net] wrote:

<snip some excellent comments on one vs. many>

@ 
@ I can see no reasonable way to have an Internet wide vote on the
@ selection of ARIN's board members who will control IP addresses vital to
@ operation.  Therefore one of the solutions that I see is for there to be
@ multiple registries.  I see a hand picked registry as only an extension
@ of the existing registry.  NAIR is an opportunity for a competing
@ registry.
@ 
@ They say that a benevolent dictatorship is the most efficient form of
@ government.  How do you ensure that the dictator is benevolent?
@ 

If you view the Internet like a small country, you might note that
many small countries start with a government ruled by a dictator
or royalty. In many cases, that form of government never progresses
because the reource allocation is controlled to prevent a democratic
form of governance to emerge. People become beholding to the
dicator or "king" for resource allocation and they will fight to the
death, because they know, if they do not, they will be black-balled
and denied resources and therefore a future.

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation