Vint Cerf: 'The Internet Is For Everyone' 163
Joel Rowbottom writes "Vint Cerf has written a damn fine RFC (3271), entitled 'The Internet Is For Everyone'. It's a good, well-balanced document which details the 'Internet Society's ideology' about the growth of the 'Net, where we can go now, and where we might be in some years' time. Worth a read."
What do we do when.... (Score:2, Interesting)
The Internet is NOT for Everyone. (Score:5, Interesting)
Since it's an RFC, here's my C..
The Internet should not be "for everyone", much the same way as driving a car should not be legal for everyone.
Having been a SysAdmin for a number of years, I can tell you that the vast majority of Internet users are law-obiding, decent and considerate people. Then, of course, you have the 1% who want to take such a wonderful gift, and abuse it. They will abuse it for their own personal or financial game, or simply because they get off on making someone else on the other end of their "attack" miserable.
I propose that people should be required to carry a Computer License, which proves they are capable of using the Internet responsibly, in much the same way as you're required to carry a Drivers License to prove you know how to use a car responsibly.
To the vast majority of us, its no big deal. Having a Computer License is no more a threat to one's personal freedoms and rights to privacy as carrying a Drivers License is. For people who have demonstrated a clear-cut lack of understanding of the fundemental governing principles of behavior and usage, their license should be revoked, just as it is for people who have demonstrated a lack of understanding for the basic principles of behavior and usage for a car. While I wouldn't impose fines, and I would not create a police force to apply the law, I would leave it up to the individual ISP to decide how to best apply this for his or her system.
Its only after we do something like I've just described that the net can be cleaned up, and relatively free of abuse, garbage, and other miscellaneous mindbarf.
Cheers,
Re:1000 million? (Score:2, Interesting)
I guess you don't live in america. America uses metric mesurements when dealing with a vast majority of things. It's not because we think our way is wrong or right. It's because it would cost a lot of money to change all the road signs in america. Anything scientific is measured in metric units. Many lesser educated people don't know what a millimeter is, but I'd expect they also don't know how to read or write. There are certain exceptions to this broad generalization I'm sure.
Re:Internet for the wealthy, by the rest of us ... (Score:3, Interesting)
Why the internet isn't free for all (Score:3, Interesting)