From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@securitydynamics.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 12:21:31 -0800 (PST)
To: "'Jennifer DePalma'" <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RE: regulating the internet
Message-ID: <6B5344C210C7D011835C0000F80127660100366A@exna01.securitydynamics.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


Your question is too vague to get any kind of simple answer.

Regulate *what* exactly? Protocol standards? Pricing? Volume 
of traffic? Traffic content? Internationally or domestically?
If domestic, which countries? Use of encryption? Anonymity?
Digital signatures? Taxation? Email content? Spam?  Porn? 
Usenet? Web sites? IRC? DNS naming services? Digital telephony?

Packets currently fly around the world as free as migratory
birds, and as hampered by borders.

Peter Trei
ptrei@securitydynamics.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jennifer DePalma [SMTP:jdepalma@cato.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 02, 1998 1:30 PM
> To:	cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject:	regulating the internet
> 
> Anyone have any opinions on the feasibility of regulating the
> internet?
>