- From: Dr. Francis MUGUET <muguet@ensta.fr>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:22:57 +0200
- To: Richard Newman <r.newman@reading.ac.uk>
- CC: semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>
Hi Richard ! > > On 10 Oct 2005, at 17:16, Dr. Francis MUGUET wrote: > >> Why should you be against people that would like to build >> some gardens of Eden. > To be trite: I think we all know how that turned out the first time > around. Yes, and all we know why.... because the garden was corrupted from the inside. Bad data hidden in an apple... The Eden comparison was more like a joke. The enviroment comparison is more to the point. >> These gardens are not going to hurt anyone, >> and after all, those who hate Eden are free to stay in Hell. > I hate to see people waste their time. This is very kind of you, but people have their freedom to chose to waste their time ( from your perspective ) > > A managed top-level, with a controlling body deciding on who has good, > clean meta-data, coupled with censorship? Centralisation doesn't work. I like to compare again the SWgTLDs project with an environmental project, The laissez-faire approach did not work for the environment , there is a need of some regulation. What is good for the pollution of the earth, should be good for the pollution of the Cyberspace. Anyway, I see this discussion turning more into a political debate between two opposing philosophical conceptions, and I would not answer any more on this philosophical point concerning SWgTLDs otherwise we are going to pollute this list with irrelevant data. Best regards Francis > -R > > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Francis F. MUGUET KNIS/ENSTA Pôle de Développement pour l'Information Scientifique "Réseaux de la Connaissance et Société de l'Information" Scientific Information Development Laboratory "Knowledge Networks & Information Society" (KNIS) ENSTA 32 Blvd Victor 75739 PARIS cedex FRANCE Phone: (33)1 45 52 60 19 Fax: (33)1 45 52 52 82 muguet@ensta.fr http://www.ensta.fr/~muguet mirror http://www.muguet.org MDPI Foundation Open Access Journals Associate Publisher http://www.mdpi.org http://www.mdpi.net muguet@mdpi.org muguet@mdpi.net World Summit On the Information Society (WSIS) Civil Society Working Groups Scientific Information : http://www.wsis-si.org chair Patents & Copyrights : http://www.wsis-pct.org co-chair Financing Mechanismns : http://www.wsis-finance.org web UNMSP project : http://www.unmsp.org WTIS initiative: http://www.wtis.org ------------------------------------------------------
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