On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Shawn McMahon wrote:
degenerate into chaos. The whole point of law and due process is that a duly authorized somebody has to have the authority to insist that everyone use the same root servers.
Somehow, I really don't think the founding fathers had that in mind.
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