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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">> There are also inherent limits what can be accomplished based on principles </span>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">> which </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">are basically voluntary in nature. For example, even if there were common, </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">> global </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">agreement on social norms regarding unsolicited commercial email, the </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">> mechanisms </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">that would be provided from an entirely techno-centric Internet </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">> cooperation system </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">would be limited to various voluntary measures of increasing </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">> complexity, in the typical </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">"arms race" of increasing subterfuge and improved </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">> detection and mitigation. These </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">not really a solutions at all, just a sequence of </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">> coping strategies which result in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">increasing costs and pain for the users.</span>
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<div class="PlainText">Not necessarily. Most of the real mitigation of Internet problems occurs in exactly this way.</div>
<div class="PlainText">This may be a terrible way of approaching problems it is just that in 95% of the cases it is better than all the alternatives. </div>
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<div class="PlainText">> Whereas, if there were a common and global agreement on acceptable social norms in
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> there likely would be far superior mechanisms available which provide a higher level of
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> assurance and lower costs to users globally.<br>
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<div class="PlainText">Your lack of familiarity with the broader field of policy studies may lead you to overstate the potential of collective action involving states, especially at the international level. Would you like to provide an example or two of a successful
effort of this sort in a highly technical field? </div>
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