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Subject: Re: Mike Roberts of Educause announces his new IANA positi
Author: JimFleming (JimFl...@unety.net) at unix,sh
Date: 8/30/98 12:35 AM
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From: Russell Nelson <nel...@crynwr.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <com-...@lists.psi.com>
Date: Saturday, August 29, 1998 9:43 PM
Subject: RE: Mike Roberts of Educause announces his new IANA position in
IFWPsteering committee
>Tim Salo writes:
> > Is it really "public property" (what ever the heck "public property"
is)?
> > Please reference appropriate FARs and contracts or cooperative
agreements.
>
>Haven't we hashed this out completely with West Publishing three or
>four years ago? At least West Publishing numbered the public-domain
>pages. What value has NSI added? How can you claim to own something
>which is in the public domain, and to which you have added no value?
>Sure, they're getting paid to keep them on a computer and make them
>available to everyone, but that's just a service they're getting paid
>for. I pay somebody to come in and clean my house, they don't get to
>camp out in my back yard afterwards.
>
With NSI it might be a little different. One might want
to start with the population of <SLD>.COM customers.
Some of those customers have renewed their names
during the past year. During that time, the NSF quietly
removed their 30% tax, NSI lowered the fees. This
placed 100% of the money with NSI and clearly some
of that money is for future service beyond the NSF
cooperative agreement. Since customers have signed
up for that service they have essentially voted for NSI
to continue operating. They voted with dollars.
When the NSF officially bows out, NSI will be left with
many customers fully paid and funding to keep them
going for many months. Other customers will no doubt
be given the opportunity to subscribe with NSI. As they
do that they will be voting for NSI.
In my opinion, it will be critical that NSI help to provide
many alternative TLDs for customers to consider. If they
do not, then .COM customers will be locked in and it
will be hard to measure how many .COM customers
would renew given other choices. At the present time,
the National Science Foundation has blocked NSI from
adding new names. That will soon go away. There will
no longer be any excuse for why new TLDs are not
being added to the legacy Root Name Servers.
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com
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