[An excerpt, originally from http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?981013.widomain.htm by Elinor Mills, InfoWorld Electric]

Under a headline, Domain games: Internet leaves the U.S. nest, the InfoWorld report included the following quotes:

"Meanwhile, Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard University law professor and authority on cyberspace, argued in a speech on Saturday that privatization is not the best way for the Internet to evolve."

"Postel told the congressional subcommittee in his written testimony that 'There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.'"

"But Lessig said this move away from government guidance is counter to what the Internet community really needs, which is protection from special interests in the form of corporations. "

"'When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place,' Lessig said in his keynote address at the One Planet, One Net symposium in Cambridge, Mass., which was sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility."

"'My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who?' Lessig questioned. 'The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.'"