TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: United States Says No! Internet is Ours!

Re: United States Says No! Internet is Ours!

Thor Lancelot Simon (tls@panix.com)
Tue, 4 Oct 2005 05:41:11 UTC

In article <telecom24.450.9@telecom-digest.org>,
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote:

> In article <telecom24.449.10@telecom-digest.org>, PAT wrote:

>> Since the 'root servers' are by and large in the United States, or
>> under the supervision of the United States

> The quoted statement above is essentially false. The root servers
> *your* DNS requests happen to terminate on may be in the United
> States, but that's just an artifact of particularly clever and
> effective use of DHCP. The root servers are distributed around the

The mind thought "BGP". The fingers typed "DHCP". Oops.

Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com

"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is
to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky

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