Doc's Concept of Net Space

DOC -- The Irish government needs to adopt the Searls Net View. It's a perspective about the way the internet manifests itself "in the world, and the way it supports all kinds of activities, and especially the way it allows markets to grow — where everybody is in a position to supply as well as demand, to produce as well as consume — demands appropriate conceptualization. We won't find that in the basket of words provided by transportation."

As Doc Searls says, "Our biggest challenge — yours and mine — right now is to keep the Net free of the regulatory assumptions that applied to the undeniably transportational nature of few-to-many communications that have been around since the FCC was the Federal Radio Commission. To do that, we need an appropriate vocabulary." Searls views the internet as a common space, not a transport protocol. The distinction is worth making in Irish government legislation concerning the internet space.

• The internet is end=to-end.
• Or a world of ends.
• Populated by more than 4m independent thinkers.
• Developing new ways to communicate.

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Doc Searls -- "A message to Michael"
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