Hi - > From: "jfcm" <info@xxxxxxxx> > To: "Eliot Lear" <lear@xxxxxxxxx>; <ietf@xxxxxxxx> > 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