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Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domainname?

  • From: Brad Knowles
  • Date: Mon Jul 04 05:05:09 2005

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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