On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Derek Balling wrote:
Must be irritating for a foreign entity to be forced to pay a US tax for an international resource. Wasn't there something like this that created an uproar in Boston Harbor?
This brings up something which has essentially been talked about around our office a couple times. What is to stop all of the foreign-placed root-servers from telling the US Government to go take some salt and pound it hard because they're not going to listen to NSI's servers any longer?
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