Tim Berners-Lee: "Anyone can build a new application on the Web, without asking me, or Vint Cerf, or their ISP, or their cable company, or their operating system provider, or their government, or their hardware vendor." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

– via Scripting News: 5/7/2006.

Susan Crawford: “This is a very big step that won't get as much attention as the Net Neutrality fight….There are costs to innovation -- having to ask permission before launching a new service.  There are costs to privacy -- having to design everything to have a back door for law enforcement.”

It seems as if the policy makers are catching up to the technology makers – except the eyeglasses they’re wearing have a much different tint.