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From: msopacua at idg.nl (Melvyn Sopacua)
Subject: Global HIGH Security Risk

At 10:05 4-2-2003, John.Airey@...b.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