<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>The only error that was made here was the assumption that developed nations were in control and controlling these things. It is more accurately a closed club of globetrotting elitist carpetbaggers that control these things. The right to speak may in some way be tolerated. But there is no way a right for individuals in the civil society to be heard or have a vote. Even on this list, if Ginger is offended you are cut off. Of course at ApNic it is not tolerated to be a non-cadre member.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 1/22/10, Adam Peake <I><ajp@glocom.ac.jp></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>Individuals pay what the ISPs decide the market will support.<BR><BR><BR>>The perception you shared is what is commonly shared amongst the<BR>>Internet community from the developed world. Its not an apple pie for<BR>>us, really, we have some really tough problems here.<BR><BR><BR>I think you are wrong. And McTim works in <BR>developing countries building networks with the <BR>resources you're talking about. I think he thinks <BR>you're wrong too.<BR><BR>Adam<BR><BR><BR><BR>>Its not how critically we think but what resources we have access to<BR>>without Moolah (money) in between. The system is very vague indeed for<BR>>the people that see it from outside but from the inside, you pay, you<BR>>get.<BR>><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table>