Internet showdown in Tunis

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"The stakes are really very high. "

Not really, everyone just hyping it.

"cyberbureaucracy"

No spin in that word, no sir-ee.

"The Bush administration said in no uncertain terms in June that it intended to relinquish the United States' unique influence over dom..."

Missed a 'refused to' in that paragraph.

"The system has worked extraordinarily well and arguably better than any other technology that's ever been rolled out. "

Absolutely, it's not like ICANN has just settled any lawsuits or anything over unauthorised changes to DNS by a subcontractor that f****ed everyone up, ... oh wait.

"It was because of the U.S. government and the research funded by it that the Internet exists in the first place."
Read up, on CERN & WWW:
http://wwwpdp.web.cern.ch/wwwpdp/ns/ben/TCPHIST.html

" I have not heard any spokesperson for a government say that their government was interested in the creation of new root systems. I've heard governments talk about other governments being interested. I think that's important."

Prepare to be suprised.

Posted by: Nigel Johnstone   Posted on: 11/14/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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