Re: [tlug] What would happen to the Internet if the US fell off the map

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 02/08/07, Pietro Zuco <drzuco@example.com> wrote:

> What about internic and .org, .com, .net domains administration?

I imagine that InterNIC has contingency plans, but;

> all the administrative
> and bureaucrat stuff that support it will maintain the Internet world
> blind for awhile I think.

I agree with this assessment, but I think "a while" would be defined
in weeks at the most, and more likely days.

> Anyway, yes, we can't ping google anymore... what will the people ping
> instead? ;-)

Google could lose six continents and still be pingable from their
Top-Secret GoogleLabs beneath the Antarctic ice. Remember that "alien"
space craft from the X-Files movie? That was not alien tech, mate,
that was the GoogleShip.

Oops, I've said to much, and I've said it in... GMAIL!!!!!!!!! Oh the horror!

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Cheers,
Josh