april fool jokes or real ? [governance] ICANN to shut down internet

[Rudi Rusdiah]

dear all,

1 sorry for the questions... but seriously..., so this shut down, was it 
a joke on april fools day ?

2 what does it mean by Internet shutdown... how can you shut down 
Internet ?... it is a network of network... is it just shutting down the 
backbones , name server (DNS) or what ?

a little bit confuse with this shut down... and is there any report of 
damage... or it is just a joke after all ? :-)

regards, rudi rusdiah - apwkomitel - indonesia

Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
> Avri,
>
> I can tell you about at least 110 million people who do not celebrate 
> April Fools' Day, Mexico. We have our own strong tradition of fooling, 
> jokes and chicanery on December 28. We have been warned of the 
> influence of Anglo culture and are doubly skeptical with respect to 
> messages from outside our cultural sphere (we don't believe everything 
> that comes from Fox News anyway on any given day.)
>
> Since the tradition seems to originate from a Christian-specific 
> significant date, it seems possible that 2/3 of the world not only do 
> not know about April Fools' Day, they resent the practical jokes as 
> inflicted on them.
>
> Finally: it is very telling that about the petty obsessions of some 
> what they choose to joke about in exposing themselves to the world - a 
> day late.
>
> Alejandro Pisanty
>
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> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Avri Doria wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:57:50 +0200
>> From: Avri Doria <avri at psg.com>
>> Reply-To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, Avri Doria <avri at psg.com>
>> To: Governance Caucus <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
>> Subject: Re: [governance] Re: ICANN to shut down internet for one hour
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> a serious question.
>>
>> does every culture celebrate 1 april with practical jokes?
>>
>> a.
>>
>>
>> On 2 Apr 2008, at 15:50, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 01:42:58PM +0000,
>>> kwasi boakye-akyeampong <kboakye1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote
>>> a message of 91 lines which said:
>>>
>>>>   The article is not clear on which Tuesday this exercise is
>>>>   expected to take place;
>>>
>>> Yesterday, April 1st...

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