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Re: United States Says No! Internet is Ours!

Thor Lancelot Simon (tls@panix.com)
Mon, 3 Oct 2005 04:50:50 UTC

In article <telecom24.449.10@telecom-digest.org>, PAT wrote:

> Since the 'root servers' are by and large in the United States, or
> under the supervision of the United States

The quoted statement above is essentially false. The root servers
*your* DNS requests happen to terminate on may be in the United
States, but that's just an artifact of particularly clever and
effective use of DHCP. The root servers are distributed around the
world -- many mirrors of each -- and are controlled by a diverse group
of entities which are not, in fact, "under the supervision of the
United States".

Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com

"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is
to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky

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