Both Jean Genet and Lucasfilm will benefit from indexing systems that make the Internet at least as easy to search as a traditional library. Indexing does not mean content rating for the purposes of filtering out Web sites. I want something open and supple that helps people find things, not a single set of scales to facilitate censorship. The stated goals are listed in the accompanying table. I cannot address these complex issues in an eight-minute talk, so I will elevate the discussion to higher questions of regulation and governance.
Internet activists can find a disagreement over anything.
It is a sort of government, but with no citizens and so far no clear accountability. It is a sort of business, but it would predicate a disaster if it exploited names and numbers as assets. And it is a sort of voluntary association, except that you can't abstain from it if you want an Internet presence. Anything set up by the United States government will be suspected by those outside the United States. But the effort has been directed more toward large institutions than toward ordinary people.