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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4012)	9/29/2001 3:36:24 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi Frank, I think we are agreed, then, that the Liberty Alliance is quite likely not the direction that the Internet ought to be going in. That said, I'm not sure that I have a great deal of hope that there will be any group of interested parties that will have as its core mandate the democratic, information-sharing and peer based networking that is so well exemplified by a facility like the nFCTF. As the Internet enters a new era, it seems inevitable that its anarchic roots will be either forgotten or severed by commercial interests. Re: I frankly don't know what assigns to them any level of governance in doing 'anything' that moves one way or the other when it comes to securing 'the system.' Who are these people, anyway, what are their true motives, and what rights do they have to assume such authority? To read the list of participants, one would have to say that there isn't a lot of altruism or "community" involved. <w> As far as rights are concerned, I'm sure the Alliance sees its "rights" coming from the consensus (or at least a sense of one) of its membership. Not an entirely unreasonable position to take. R.