(email string deleted...) I'm deeply saddened that the very folks who work so hard to run the Internet are publicly speculating that DHS wants to take over the 'net. If that's the message that DHS is sending, then we need to go back to the drawing boards and re-write the message. Can somebody point to DHS quotes that lend support to this idea? Or are the ideas coming from a bunch of pseudo-news hacked together by non-technical reporters that have absolutely no idea what they are talking about? Unless I'm totally out to lunch, the DHS is not trying to take over the Internet (nor DoD, nor Commerce, nor DoJ, not even George W. Bush himself.) The DHS Science and Technology Directorate is funding several programs aimed at increasing the security of Internet mechanisms, primarily the DNS and the routing infrastructure. Funding RDTE&T is not the same as running a global infrastructure. Folks, please do some research on this and stop bashing a group that is working hard to make your jobs easier to perform (unless you think that bashing is needed, and if so, please cite the sources of your concerns.) We need a lot of leadership, both public and private, and I think that DHS is offering us something that we should be reinforcing, not tearing down. Thanks. Marc Marcus H. Sachs, P.E. SRI International 1100 Wilson Blvd Suite 2800, Arlington VA 22209 tel +1 703 247 8717 fax +1 703 247 8569 mob +1 703 932 3984 marcus.sachs@sri.com