Hi -
From: "jfcm" <info(_at_)utel(_dot_)net>
To: "Eliot Lear" <lear(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>; <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: just a brief note about anycast
...
The world wants a new network
approach, more equal, more secure, more stable, safer, more innovation
oriented, respectfull of national digital independance and sovereignty and
IS actually switching.
...
Phrases like "national digital independence and sovereignty" make
it sound as though the real motivation for all this is to make it
easier for the repressive regimes of the world to selectively disconnect
themselves from the global net. Things are bad enough already.
Let's not help the chauvenists of nationalism make things worse,
even though the technology is already in place to allow them to do it.
Admirable goals like improving network security and stability do
not require increased government involvement, nor do they in
any way require abandoning the existing cooperative relationship
between the ITU and the IETF. The very notion of "national
digital independence and soveriegnty" is contrary to network
security and stability.
Randy