[81933] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Mon Jul 4 05:04:06 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0507032038580.15193@sokol.elan.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:35:55 +0200
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 8:46 PM -0700 2005-07-03, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
>
>> ICANN has no right to claim that they are the authority for the namespace.
>> They are NOT. Also note the word PUBLIC in PUBLIC-ROOT.
>
> Yeh, that's just great - "PUBLIC" being used in propoganda compaign to
> create what appears to be private internet in China...
Sounds kind of like the People's Democratic Republic of China, to
me. In that it is neither democratic nor a republic, that is.
Lots of words tend to get highly abused in this world, many times
to mean anything but the original usage. Public is one of them.
CAN-SPAM now means "I *can* spam".
Nothing new here, move along....
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