On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 wrote: > "But the UN is a government--" > "No it isn't," Martin insisted, "It's a talking shop. Started > out as a treaty organization, turned into a bureaucracy, then an escrow > agent for various transnational trade and standards agreements. After > the Singularity, it was taken over by the Internet engineering task > force. It's not the government of Earth; it's just the only remaining > relic of Earth's governments that your people can recognize. ..." > > Singularity Sky, by Charles Stross, ISBN: 0-441-01179-9, Ace Books. From > page 281 of the July 2004 paperback edition. We're already on the edge of on-topic and this comment has the risk of sending us spiraling off, but everyone really must immediately stop whatever you're doing to go out and buy and read everything by Charles Stross. You won't regret it. Matt _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf