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September 28, 2004

[nb] Andrew Pincus

Andrew is the former general council of the Dept. of Commerce and now is a partner in Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Mawe.

[Pardon my brevity. This was a very good, short talk. But I'm pretty fried. Here's a quick snippet:

The Internet is global. We had been successful on pushing our "don't regulate the Internet" line, but with the World Summit on Information Services there's a serious push for world regulation of the Net. Countries have inconsistent demands. To defeat pro-regulation forces, we hvae to take a decentralized approach. We have to defeat them all, not patch them up. The ITU will have exactly the opposite approach.

Posted by D. Weinberger at September 28, 2004 05:05 PM


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