[governance] Re: IS THE DIGITAL DIVIDE A PHANTOM?

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at internatif.org
Tue Jul 31 04:09:34 EDT 2007


On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:27:57AM +0300,
 McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 44 lines which said:

> My favorite definition is Seth Breidbart's:
> 
> "It's the largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive
> symmetric closure of the relationship "can be reached by an IP
> packet from".

I may be pedantic but it seems to be that this definition excludes all
the poor guys locked behind a NAT since, in that case, their link to
the Internet is neither really reflexive, nor symmetric and certainly
not transitive.

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