[dns-operations] "it's like having a pizza delivered to a friend's house as a prank."

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:02:24PM +0000,
 Paul Vixie <paul at vix.com> wrote 
 a message of 10 lines which said:

> the internet has always been self-governing entity independent of
> any national government other than for funding.
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                          Paul, you must be joking. How can you be
			  independent from those
			  who fund you?

(And, BTW, a very important part of the Internet, the management of
the DNS root zone file is not "independent of any national
government", even in theory.)