<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Brian E Carpenter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com" target="_blank">brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">But of course the NSA, with their friends in 5 Eyes, have interception<br>
points on the other sides of both the Atlantic and the Pacific.<br>
Geography isn't an insurmountable issue for them. I don't think<br>
that rerouting as proposed by Merkel & Hollande would be too hard<br>
for them to deal with. The fact that the network is called "Internet"<br>
rather than, say, "X.25" is certainly not a fundamental issue for them.<br>
The fact that the name to address lookup system is a distributed<br>
database with multiple international root servers is not much of an<br>
issue for them. The fact the the root zone file is maintained in the<br>
USA is pretty much irrelevant to them.<br>
<br>
Being "outed" by Snowden, and the resulting legal and political<br>
hassle, is a big issue for them. They'll be *delighted* if the<br>
hassle gets sidetracked in a discussion of "Internet governance."<br>
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Brian</font></span><br></blockquote><div><br>Indeed, a flood of petty questions is a hackneyed trick for snowing the issue.<br><br></div><div>Louis<br> <br></div></div></div></div>