One thing that I'm worried about is InterNIC. As I understand it, it is a central company that is in the business of receiving domain name registrations, including the info on what that domain is connected to, and sending it out to various nameservers. The nameservers then use this to route some (not all, I do believe) traffic. This situation is a weak point. The government in whatever country InterNIC's physical presence is in (the US, I believe) can put pressure on it for "faciliating breakage of laws" or some such nonsense (for some material, such as the sites that have crypto material, the espionage argument that it is cooperating in limiting their ability to work might be what was used). It is then forced to stop issuing domain names except to people the US govt wants to get such. Nameservers in the US that use any other service to determine domain names get arrested themselves, under likewise treatment. Now, this can all be fought in the courts and will likely be defeated.. but it would still cause some problems. Am I completely incorrect, or do the programmers on here and elsewhere need to start coming up with a better way to do things? -Allen