begin quoting gossamer axe as of Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:49:37AM -0800: > > What if it only *mostly* works? :) > > > > The thing that gets me is... what if the EU/UN/China/whatnot decided > > that they didn't like the system, and duplicated it under *their* > > control, and convinced their populations to use their root nameservers? > > Those countries are free to do so, but the question is "will they"? We've
Probably not, it would be an economic disaster. > had control over the internet for this long and no one has questioned this > before, or if they have, it hasn't attracted this much press. Well, (a) the internet is getting more and more important, and (b) recent events in the real world are casting doubts regarding our continued good will towards everyone else. Imagine if Iran were in control (and hadn't yet done anything different from what we're doing). What would *we* be trying to do? -Stewart "Not sitting around just accepting the situation" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
