Well, I must say that I am absolutely amazed that Russell has not 
brought this to our attention!  :-)  He is usually the first one to 
notice such ominous clouds on the horizon.

 From the NY Times:

> The United States and Europe clashed here Thursday in one of their 
> sharpest public disagreements in months, after European Union 
> negotiators proposed stripping the Americans of their effective 
> control of the Internet.  The European decision to back the rest of 
> the world in demanding the creation of a new international body to 
> govern the Internet clearly caught the Americans off balance and left 
> them largely isolated at talks designed to come up with a new way of 
> regulating the digital traffic of the 21st century.


John

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