What does ARIN have to do with anything? Any ISP can choose to ignore ARIN if they want to. As soon as ARIN tried to do something stupid there would be plenty of geeks to rise up and run an open service for the same purpose.
Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ V: 415-577-8070 F: 415-341-8906 P: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 8:58 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: FEDERAL NOC Re: 425 arrested at KMart > > :) Govt can control ARIN. > Arin puts the certain class a's out to the Asia Domain Registry or > whatever > its called then theres the Europe and south america ones. > Arin delegates authority to them but arin is still the king and can shut > down everythign if they had to. > > You say it can't be done and i know you are wrong on that one. > it would bring the net to a halt but it could happen. I dont think it > would > EVER happen but with GW in there you never know lol, maybe he'll call it > too > much of a security risk and shut it all down. J/k > > > Bill Wheatley > Senior Database Developer > Macromedia Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer > EDIETS.COM > 954.360.9022 X159 > ICQ 417645 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 11:44 AM > Subject: RE: FEDERAL NOC Re: 425 arrested at KMart > > > > > But in reality the US Govt runs the internet anyway. I mean if we went > > to > > > war govt could shut down traffic to whole web if they wanted it's > > amazing > > > how many class a's they have registered ;). > > > > > That isn't really true. There is absolutely no way the government could > > shut down the Internet unless they resorted to DOS attacks. > > > > -Matt > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
