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Re: The future of the IETF
Ouch! Some very hot cocoa came out of my nose
when I read this.
On reflection, though, it's pretty funny.
Ted
At 1:25 PM -0800 10/31/2003, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>I'm currently reading "Singularity Sky" by Charles Stross,
>which contains the following amusing passage:
>
> "But the UN is a government--"
> "No, it isn't," Martin insisted. "It's a talking shop. Started out
> as a treaty organization, turned into a bureaucracy, then an escrow
> agent for various transnational trade and standards agreements.
> After the Singularity it was taken over by the Internet engineering
> task force"
>
>So now you know what we have to look forward to.
>-Ekr