Internet Architecture and Operation:'Supra-National' Rather Than

'International' Governance

Roger Clarke, Xamax Consultancy, Canberra

http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/ ...... IGCLPC02 {.html, .ppt}

Cyberspace Law & Policy CentreSydney, 25 October 2002

"There was no analogyfor the way in which

Great A'Tuin the world turtlemoved against the galactic night.

When you are ten thousand miles long,your shell pocked with meteor craters

and frosted with comet ice,there is absolutely nothingyou can realistically be like

except yourself"

Pratchett (1988), p.13

• ‘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