From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 30 19: 1:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBCDB37B401; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:01:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from durendal.skynet.be (durendal.skynet.be [195.238.3.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D8743FA3; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:01:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [193.0.9.156] (ip-26.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.26] (may be forged)) by durendal.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.20) with ESMTP id h0V31Cc00713; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 04:01:12 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20030129163652.J22139-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> <20030130022654.C31399@aqua.lan.palfreman.com> <20030130010126.Y341@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> <20030131015918.J31399@aqua.lan.palfreman.com> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 04:01:32 +0100 To: Brad Knowles From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: 4.7-R-p3: j.root-servers.net Cc: William Palfreman , Doug Barton , Fred Clift , "" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 3:43 AM +0100 2003/01/31, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 2:11 AM +0000 2003/01/31, William Palfreman wrote: > >> Only in the case of a _unitary_ domain name system. With different >> roots and different TLDs, based in different legal jurisdictions, it is >> not possible for a court to enforce arbitrary domain name decisions (as >> it is at present) because if their whim of the moment is not acceptable >> to the different competing nameserver admins, the is nothing the courts >> can do. > > Not true. If you live in country B, and you are convicted of a crime > in country A, you may think you are safe. However, if the legal system > in country A can convince the legal system in country B that you should > be expedited, you are toast. Heck, if country A decides to send in s/expedited/extradited/ Sigh.... ;-( > commandos to haul your ass in, they don't need the cooperation of the > legal system in country B -- although, it does make things a lot easier. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message