Well, so i vote as best joke/pranks on 1st of april(april fools)
@governance mlist :-)<br /> <br /> i took it a bit serious,
because it was circulated in serious governance mailing list :-)<br
/>rgds, rudi <br /><br /> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: <blockquote
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:43:26AM +0700,<br /> Rudi Rusdiah
<rusdiah@rad.net.id> wrote <br /> a message of 87 lines which
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<pre wrap="">so this shut down, was it a joke on april fools day ?<br
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br />It was. Not only was it sent on April 1st (and I
insisted on the day)<br />but anyone could see it was a joke, for the
exact reasons you explain:<br /><br /></pre>
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<pre wrap="">2 what does it mean by Internet shutdown... how can you shut
down<br />Internet ?... it is a network of network... is it just shutting
down<br />the backbones , name server (DNS) or what ?<br /></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br />Governance-speaking, it is clear for everyone on
this list that no<br />organization (ICANN, Microsoft, IETF, ITU,
whatever) has the power to<br />shutdown the entire Internet. As often
with April's 1st jokes, it is<br />made for people to think about the news
we receive daily. Are they<br />realistic? Are they true?<br /><br />It
was also an opportunity to learn new things, for instance that<br
/>April's fools day is not universal. <br /><br />On the other hand, I
also had a confirmation that once you mention<br />ICANN in an email,
Alejandro Pisanty steps in to defend Marina del Rey<br />:-)<br /><br
/>Practical jokes' amateurs may appreciate these:<br /><br
/>http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html (Google invented a<br
/>technology to search Web pages that do not exist yet)<br /><br
/>http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5241.txt (IETF will now sells the<br
/>rights to protocol fields to raise money)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br
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