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Re: Domain fees to rise...

  • From: Patrick Greenwell
  • Date: Tue Sep 08 15:32:46 1998

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Derek Balling wrote:

> >Must be irritating for a foreign entity to be forced to pay a US tax for
> >an international resource. Wasn't there something like this that created
> >an uproar in Boston Harbor?
> 
> This brings up something which has essentially been talked about around our
> office a couple times. What is to stop all of the foreign-placed
> root-servers from telling the US Government to go take some salt and pound
> it hard because they're not going to listen to NSI's servers any longer?

http://www.irsc.ah.net/

My understanding is that it still needs some work in the "keeping things
syncronzied" dept. but it seems to be fairly sucessful....


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