[CII] terms and conditions

[Avri Doria]

On 29 Nov 2009, at 11:09, Robert Slade wrote:

> From: Robert Slade <rmslade at shaw.ca>
> Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009 7:37 am
> 
>> At the moment I am in the Vancouver airport.  It is one of 
>> the few that provides free Wifi.  (Works great, too.)  
> 
> 
> OK, lemme qualify that.  Works OK as long as you keep going.  Seems to have a timeout of about five minutes, and, if you haven't done anything in that time, you need to agree to the terms and conditions again.  So, part of my current critical infrastructure is a need to have an additional browser window open, in order to do another acceptance of the terms and conditions before I send any message that took me more than five minutes to type.  (I'm using a Web interface, protected by SSL.  It's good to see that Firefox and SSL won't just accept any non-SSL traffic in the middle of my session, but it does mean the separate window is necessary.  On the other hand, it's nice to see that Firefox is acceptable to the YVR system: so many hotels demand that you have an IE window open in order to sign on or accept their terms.)
> 


But doesn't this start to equate 'Critical' with 'convenient to have'.

I guess i tend to want to push the meaning of  'Critical' to the edge of 'something without which there is no Internet'

The question then becomes for me one of  the locality and temporality of that statement.  Critical for the Internet at large, or Criticial for Internet at some place in time.

'Internet At large' works fine if by our definition being an Internet means reaches all people.  But few people mean that, I think.

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