At 09:10 AM 6/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Richard J. Sexton wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>> "I don't wish to offer an opinion about how the net should be run;
>that's
>> like offering an opinion about how salamanders should grow: nobody has
>any
>> control over it, regardless of what opinions they might have" - BKR
>
>For a contrary view, see David Post, "Governing Cyberspace",
><http://www.icannwatch.org/archives/essays/929912389.shtml>.
1) there has never been anything in human history as big, diverse or
ungovernable as the Internet. 2) wrong URL, thats not Post's essay.
>Particularly at "...imagine for the moment that you had control over
>operation of the root server." et seq.
Everybody does. The root servers are a mere convenience; they're
pointers to all the tld servers. This information is not secret.
At this point, the convenience is no longer that convenient.
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