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That has nothing on Al Gore, who invented the internet! And in much the same way as any other president doing something popular and uncontroversial: it would've happened almost no matter who was at the top.

(Point is, most legislation and XOs are largely bipartisan. Policy is driven much more by the machinations of hundreds of thousands of faceless/nameless actors than by the guy at the top. In both good ways and bad. The same is true in companies. The genius of leaders is mostly in their salesmanship.)



> The genius of leaders is mostly in their salesmanship.

The topic of a couple Adam Curtis's documentaries IIRC.

Obama's first presidential campaign won marketing awards: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jun/29/barack-obama-c...


I agree. 99% 'people at the top' probably don't even know what IP is. Much less IPv6 migration problems.

However, the point of an xyz 'administration' is that they they take credit or blame for the work of faceless bureaucrats.




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