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RE: Statements against new.net?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Batchelor)
Tue Mar 13 15:27:43 2001

From: "Mike Batchelor" <mikebat@tmcs.net>
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:18:12 -0800
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> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:29:23 PST, Patrick Greenwell said:
> I fail to see how RFC2826 is in any way "political".  Upon
> careful re-reading
> it boils down to:
>
> If you use one root, everybody agrees what things look like.
>
> If you use multiple roots, what people will see depends on which
> root they ask.
>
> How is this political?

Because the one root referred to is the USG/ICANN root.  It cannot avoid
being political (anymore).

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