At 12:10 AM 1/31/97 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:

On this point, the other governments are correct. It really _is_ tougher to maintain a nation-state when your former subjects can have private conversations with each other and with other governments' former subjects...... And even 56 bits is a start.

You don't have to be nice to nation states you meet on the way up if you're not coming back down. DCF