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At 04:56 PM 1/21/98 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
>The US Government funded what became the commercial Internet, including the

Wrong.  The US funded the initial Internet.  It never funded the commercial
Internet.

>NSFNet.  For YEARS we had to have *permission* to talk to some sites.  This

Today you have to have permission to make a phone call into some
organizations, too.  What possible relevance does that have about the
general Internet, which has been predominantly commercial for most of the
90's?

>Baloney.  IANA is FUNDED by the US Government.  Look at where the money

You continue to misunderstand the difference between funding and authority,
Karl.  If IANA had not been doing an acceptable job, in the view of the
Internet community, then it would not matter how much funding it got or
from where.  It would have ceased to be allowed to do the task.

>Sorry, but the Government paid for more than half of the existing root
>nameservers and funded (and still funds) IANA.  Given this, they have claim

Care to run a quick calculation on these costs, relative to overall
Internet operations?  They are, of course, insignificant.  Distracting,
yes.  But insignificant.

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