Re: [ga] Vint Cerf opposed to users being redirected to search engines

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 16:19 06/09/03, Dan Steinberg wrote:
> I agree with Karl that many (if not most) users of the web do not care 
> about the religious purity of the experience and more about finding what 
> they want.

Dan,
what millions of brains aournd the world do with, understand of, engineers 
from the software is what one names "brainware" - what Telihard de Chardin 
has annouced as the "noosphere".

> More to the point, it seems to me that none of us (not even the mighty 
> ICANN) has the right nor the power to control what happens in this 
> instance.  At the desktop???? I think not.  In fact...I'm sure not.

The brainware can be influenced, suggested ideas, mostly at the begining of 
a new conept taught correct or wrong beliefs by press, education, 
government attitudes etc. one says "influed", the same as "programmed" for 
software and "designed" for hardware.

One exemple of brainware influing is the root system: making the world 
believe one needs a real time access to 13 (now a little more) machines 
under ICANN control, to get updated a file mostly known as being refused to 
be updated by ICANN, everyone can update via FTP, and which represents in 
size 1% or less than the virus tables everyone maintains on his machine.

Today after ICANN the brainware master is Microsoft. And this is the reason 
of its importance. If BG says or develop something most of the people will 
accept and trust it is the way it must be done in a world lead by Windows. 
There are some ICANN sects, there are IETF chapels but there is a leading 
M$ church.

jfc


Karl Auerbach wrote:

> > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, L. Gallegos wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > The link below requires a subscription to wsjonline.  If anyone knows of 
> > > any other articles reporting this opinion by Mr. Cerf, I'd like to see it.
> >
> > In case anywone has not noticed, Microsoft's Internet Exploder^H^H^Hrer 
> > comes from the factory with "search" enabled.
> >
> > There is a long road between what a user enters into a browser's "address 
> > bar" and what is seen in the browser windows.  Along that road the user's 
> > entry may evolve considerably.
> >
> > Microsoft has given itself priority places along that roadway, but we 
> > have seen others, new.net being but one, who also have made use of the 
> > place between the address bar and the window.
> >
> > I seriously doubt that many web users care much about the religious purity
> > of domain names; I suggest that users care, instead, much more about
> > finding what they want.
> >
> >                 --karl--
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