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[Gordon Cook]

Jeff, I find your reply confusing.  The announcement yesterday had very
little to do with DNS.  The announcement is for an independent IP registry
operated as a 501(c)6 by the ISP members who own and control it.  ARIN has
nothing DIRECTLY to do with DNS which your replies seem to be focused on.

I was part of the same telephone press conference with elizabeth weiss
yesterday where about 8 of us were briefed by george Strawn of NSF.  i
also have published my own lengthy analysis of why ARIN is important......
I believe that I sent a copy to this list.

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On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Jeff Williams wrote:

> 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
> 
>