There is a nice root server FAQ here:
http://www.isoc.org/briefings/020/

-Adam

On 9/30/05, John Ferrell <johnferrell@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I am still trying to understand what "control" means.
>
> John Ferrell
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> From: "John Nall" <jwnall@gmail.com>
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> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:28 AM
> Subject: [OT] Who controls the internet
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>
> > 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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