A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
>
> >My understanding is - and I don't know this first hand - is that the EU
> >has threatened to run their own root servers and have used this
> >as a bargining point to get all sorts of things going back to the
> >creation of ICANN.
>
> Isn't that what they effectively did not so long ago with
> X400 the EARN bitnet? Maybe it's their destiny. :-)
Isn't it true also that there are, in Europe and elsewhere, large
portions of the Internet that are secluded from the rest of the Net?
For example, Terena and its TEN-155 net, which amounts to an
Internet of its own. What is the essential difference between that
and the root server system of, say, ORSC?
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