Uncle Sam Thanks You For Fixing The Internet

Andrew Fried posted the following to the NANOG list today:

I have been following the various threads relating to Verisign and
wanted to make one comment that I feel has been missing. Simply put, I would
like to publicly express my appreciation to Mr. Vixie for taking the time to
add the "root-delegation-only" patch for Bind. I'm fairly new to NANOG, but
I'm sure that others beside myself also feel a thank you is appropriate.

Who is Andrew Fried? He's a Senior Special Agent for the U.S. Treasury
Department. Furthermore, he's Treasury Inspector General for Tax
Administration.

Needless to say, I find this kind of public statement regarding Verisign (and the global A record/SiteFinder debacle) pretty cool, especially
considering that the Treasury Department is also the home of the Secret
Service.