Statements against new.net?

Sat Mar 17 14:19:57 UTC 2001

hmm yes okay but are you aware that the usa doesnt make up the largest
part of the internet, the rest of the world does? the congress has no
power there.. 

Steve

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Miles Fidelman wrote:

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> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Shawn McMahon wrote:
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> > > degenerate into chaos. The whole point of law and due process is that
> > > a duly authorized somebody has to have the authority to insist that
> > > everyone use the same root servers.
> > 
> > Somehow, I really don't think the founding fathers had that in mind.
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> Somehow I think that's EXACTLY what the founding fathers had in mind:
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> "The Congress shall have power to ... fix the standard of weights and
> measures" U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Par. 5
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