New Rules

When the surf’s up, and, a wave is walling-up, there is never much time to think about it. Get the ride or get out of the way for somebody else to have a crack.
And like surfing or driving or any other mass transit operation (this evolving Internet entity) for that matter, there cannot be function and achievement without some basic ground rules. For living, some call them the Commandments. There’s also your basic Golden Rule. For SCUBA divers, it’s to: “Always, always, always, follow your bubbles.” There are simpler (common sense) ones too: Don’t piss into the wind or eat the yellow snow. All games, driving, flying and most supermarkets all have rules too.
So do all successful systems. Yet, who is going to decide about the 'Net' and how it's run? What will be the rules placed on the people of the truly Global Internet? Should it be the users that determine policy? Should it be the teachers? Should it be the inventors, programmers, corporate moguls? Who’s to choose how we interact and use this creature called World Wide Web? These are questions that are being discussed and answered as we speak. If you want a voice in this decision, you better speak up and speak soon. In the Lake Charles American Press last week there was an interesting short piece in: “Tech Bits” about Japan to research Internet replacement!
This article is in its entirety at the Washington post: