[governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance

[carlos a. afonso]

Not exactly rational,  but certainly logical and practical :)

--c.a.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org>
To: Jovan Kurbalija <jovank at diplomacy.edu>
Cc: "'WSIS Internet Governance Caucus'" <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, 
"'Vittorio Bertola'" <vb at bertola.eu.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:25:40 +0200
Subject: Re: [governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance

> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:16:34PM +0200,
>  Jovan Kurbalija <jovank at diplomacy.edu> wrote 
>  a message of 30 lines which said:
> 
> > Since computer engineers are rational and practical people they
> must
> > have invented "names" very early in the net development.
> 
> There is more than the invention of "names". There is an evolution
> similar to the one of people's names: first, informal names, given by
> your neighbors and friends, not standardized, specially in writing,
> then an official list, with a freeze of the names, then a resolution
> system (HOSTS.TXT, the DNS or a people directory)...
> 
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