Re: The Green Paper is One Small Component

[Karl Denninger <karl at mcs.net>]

On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 06:57:00PM +0000, Jim Dixon wrote:
> A 45 Mbps pipe across the Atlantic costs about $500,000 a month.  That
> is, one connection between the US and Europe costs roughly as much as
> what the US government pays IANA annually. 
>  
> > Now you want to bitch when the people holding the purse come asking for
> > you to comply with what the believe is US Federal law?
> >
> > Give me a break.
> 
> Give us a break, Karl.  You know perfectly well how little the US 
> government pays towards the cost of running the Internet.
> 
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> Jim Dixon                  VBCnet GB Ltd           http://www.vbc.net
> tel +44 117 929 1316                             fax +44 117 927 2015

Irrelavent.  The point is the IANA root nameservers and the data in them.

If you want to set up your own root nameservers, then you are completely
free from the influence of the US Government in this regard.

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