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To: rrufff who wrote (4068)	4/26/2000 12:01:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 6847

Hello rrufff, One of the areas that I have been looking at over the last several years is the way that I believe we will start to see physical world solutions appearing in the Internet. First, there are "hierarchies of authority" that we exist in today, and I have proposed a few ways that I believe these will be enforced in the future. A "hierarchy of authority" in the physical world is the fact that I have authorities who control me because of my physical location on earth - The US Government, the State of Utah, an employer, a building owner, etc. Each of these creates layers of "law" that apply to me ... when I move physically to another location, then I move to an alternate set of authorities - maybe some the same, some different. Likewise on the Internet, I am going to be controlled and influenced by a "hierarchy of authorities" ... most people just don't realize it. It's much like the newspapers and TV today. Depending on how I will be connected to the Internet, I will be under the authority of any of the entities/ISPs, etc that come between me and my intended destination. My ISP might decide to filter or alter content, my government might decide to do this. (I have actually sat down and met with the governments of Singapore and Vietnam ... they both desired this!) So likewise, I see a structure of "sanctioning" that will start to appear also ... when "we" discover which ISPs are harboring users/applications which cause disruption to normal communications and business process, then we will filter traffic from those locations - creating the same sanctioning powers that we have today in the physical world! ;-) It's going to be fun and exciting! Scott C. Lemon