In one of the DVD's extras, open source developer Paul Garrin describes how old media co-opts the Net into the centralized model of cable TV, the content from one edge not reaching the other edge. Garrin recounts the myths of the Internet, how it's really not public but now resting upon private infrastructure, how it does have borders (BGP firewalls serving as its customs police), how it's a loose confederation of private nation-states who agree——but are not required——to exchange info packets. Its center is the root domain, with a very hierarchical authority and corporate control. His Namespace mode is peer-to-peer situation for domains. This extra serves as a brief but interesting introduction to a topic too little discussed, the privatization of the Internet."
source: http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/nov2006/net_mosher.html
