This seems to me like being in a gold rush town with every one for themselves. What's needed as the stakes go up and civilization comes as things calm down a bit is a sheriff (a CyberCop), there's too much vested interest otherwise. The tools, etc. are new just like this frontier is new but it can be done. It can also be local (just read a story of India trying to to tariff Yahoo, MSN, etc.) through the backbone. The stakes already seem high enough but I sense that since technology corporations can be easily blammed for the errant behavior of others (like blaming the locksmith for continually being robbed), the pressure for collective action has not reached the point to cause the focus needed... I agree with a previous post to apply principles developed over 100's or 1000's of years into our next commmunial space!

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