Regarding the statement by the Dept. of Commerce a couple of weeks ago, as John Leyden writes in The Register this morning, it has a few poeple upset: "Despite an increasing number of newspaper articles- all from US media organisations-claiming that the internet community is happy to let the US government continue its role, a recent meeting of registries from across Europe begs to differ." http://www.theregister.com/2005/07/11/centr_root/ And althought everyone knew this would rankle a lot of people, there's no shortage of comments about it over on /. http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/05/07/11/1539242.shtml?tid=95&tid=219 - ferg ps. And, ironicallt, all of this is boiling up during ICANN's meeting in Luxembourg this week... -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/