a 2nd potential solution

[Larry Vaden]

At 09:00 PM 7/16/97 +0100, Jeff Williams wrote:
>> One thing that bothers me about the current environment is the continued
>> reference to various people as "clueless".  Yet, I read (if memory serves
>> correctly) that NSI/InterNIC has billed only 50% of the domains and has cut
>> off fully paid domains (no need to read about this part, it happened to us
>> `[:((.
>> 
>> It is hard for me to imagine even a die hard old timer supporting a firm
>> with such a record.
>
>  Couldn't agree more.
>> 
>> Thus my suggestion that NAIR might want to use a Big 6 Accounting Firm or a
>> firm like EDS to do the back office functions.
>
>  Possibly a big 6 firm.  But I would stay away form EDS if it were
>me in their possition, knowing what I do about EDS.  At any rate, there
>seems to be several problems that are I am sure obvious to all.  One
>is that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.  The
>other obvious one is that the legal talent is deffinatly lacking.

Actually, the suggestion is a rhetorical one, used to separate the current
results from the expected results.  I'd rather use firms like Stan Barber's
academ.com for the back office function.  But I speak personally, not for
NAIR.