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[Jeff Williams]

Rey,

Rey Blanco wrote:
> 
> marshall eubanks wrote:
> >
> > This just came in from the Washington Post
> >
> > ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/digest/tech1.htm )
> >
> > NSF Approves Non-Profit Internet Registry
> >      Plan
> >
> >      By Elizabeth Weise
> >      AP Cyberspace Writer
> >      Tuesday, June 24, 1997; 4:22 p.m. EDT
> >
> >      Moving to privatize the Internet, the National Science Foundation says the
> >      assigning of numbers for Internet addresses will be turned over to a non-profit
> >      organization.
> >
> >      The NSF on Tuesday approved a plan that will establish the American Registry
> >      for Internet Numbers. It will keep track of which numbers are assigned to what
> >      computers in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
> >
> >      Responsibility for registering and tracking numbers and names is currently
> >      handled by the private firm Network Solutions Inc. of Reston, Va., under
> >      contract with the NSF.
> >
> >      Every computer on the Internet has a numerical address, an Internet Protocol
> >      address. To make it easier to remember, it's also assigned a "domain name."
> >      Thus, 192.220.250.1 becomes nike.com.
> >
> >      The NSF plan will separate the assignment of names and numbers, as is already
> >      done in Asia and Europe.
> >
> >      One reason to separate names and numbers is the legal controversy over who
> >      has the right to assign and create Internet domain names.
> >
> >                                         Regards
> >                                         Marshall Eubanks
> >                                         tme at casa.usno.navy.mil
> Marshall:
> 
> Does this mean that all the people who have been praying that
> internet works will lose the domain names they have?

  No it doesn't at all.  But the managment of who controls those
domains will be substancialy diffrent.  In addition there will be
7 new TLD's.  (See www.iahc.org for further details.
> 
> Right now if one taps into the computer a "dot com" address
> the "internet" is programmed to go out and search for the long
> goobledygook address:   http://www.somedomain.com
> if one simply types     somedomain      into the "go to" box.
> 
> Does that programming dissappear?  Is there another operating system?

  No the programing does not dissappear.  But a new SHARED registry
Domain Network system will be implimented.  The operating systems
have little or no effect.  
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Rey Blanco

Regards,
-- 
Jeffrey A. Williams
DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java Development Eng.
Information Eng. Group. IEG. INC. 
Phone :913-294-2375 (v-office)
E-Mail jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com