>> Since the 'root servers' are by and large in the United States, or
>> under the supervision of the United States
> The quoted statement above is essentially false. The root servers
> *your* DNS requests happen to terminate on may be in the United
> States, but that's just an artifact of particularly clever and
> effective use of DHCP. The root servers are distributed around the
The mind thought "BGP". The fingers typed "DHCP". Oops.
Thor Lancelot Simon snipped-for-privacy@rek.tjls.com
"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky