At 8:46 PM -0700 2005-07-03, william(at)elan.net wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
ICANN has no right to claim that they are the authority for the namespace. They are NOT. Also note the word PUBLIC in PUBLIC-ROOT.
Yeh, that's just great - "PUBLIC" being used in propoganda compaign to create what appears to be private internet in China...
Sounds kind of like the People's Democratic Republic of China, to me. In that it is neither democratic nor a republic, that is. Lots of words tend to get highly abused in this world, many times to mean anything but the original usage. Public is one of them. CAN-SPAM now means "I *can* spam". Nothing new here, move along.... -- Brad Knowles, <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.