| rdfs:comment | - There was a need for tight coffee regulations as far back as 1991, the start of the overseas coffee boom. People were eschewing their bland old local coffee pots and were importing from such luxurious places as China. This was a problem for Governments of the old C8, which composed of the most powerful coffee pot making countries of the world — Britain, America, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, Russia and, oddly, Papua New Guinea. These Governments were losing money from cheap Far Eastern knock-offs of their products, which their subjects were buying with much more abundance than the expensive home-produced versions.
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| abstract | - There was a need for tight coffee regulations as far back as 1991, the start of the overseas coffee boom. People were eschewing their bland old local coffee pots and were importing from such luxurious places as China. This was a problem for Governments of the old C8, which composed of the most powerful coffee pot making countries of the world — Britain, America, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, Russia and, oddly, Papua New Guinea. These Governments were losing money from cheap Far Eastern knock-offs of their products, which their subjects were buying with much more abundance than the expensive home-produced versions. The Governments of these countries proposed a rule outlawing people from buying pots from countries other than their homeland, but that was defeated due to the recent fall of Communism, and the public outrage of anything looking like it. So they went back to the drawing board...and forgot about for seven years. Then, a bored intern told one of the Government's leaders to go on a power trip. Said leader thought this was a good idea, and decided to let a crack team of internet Nerds (the IETF, in this case) impose as tight a restriction on coffee pots as was humanly possible. When put to a poll, this measure passed with a majority of seven, with the Papua New Guinea vote being construed as "Uha Uha Vana Uha", and thus discounted.
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