RE: Global HIGH Security Risk

[Melvyn Sopacua <msopacua () idg nl>]

At 10:05 4-2-2003, John.Airey () rnib org uk wrote:

> Technically the Internet belongs to the US (although organisations like the
> National Physical Laboratory and CERN might claim an interest). After all,
> the A root name server is in the US and could be shut down by the US
> Government. Without another server becoming the primary the Internet would
> disappear.

Ehm - it's a bitch of a reconf (hey - we roughly have 3 weeks, which should
be a reasonable deadline), but of course it's not impossible to change root 
servers
on a country level.

Anyway - the internet's infrastructure doesn't die nor can it's legal 
ownership,
be derived from the workings/ownership of a single service.



Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards,

Webmaster IDG.nl
Melvyn Sopacua

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