What triggered ARIN ?

[Jim Fleming]

On Wednesday, March 05, 1997 2:10 PM, John Curran[SMTP:jcurran at bbnplanet.com] wrote:
@ At 8:56 3/5/97, Jim Fleming wrote:
@ >On Tuesday, March 04, 1997 8:51 PM, John Curran[SMTP:jcurran at BBNPLANET.COM] wrote:
@ 
@ >The suggestion has been that these regional registries
@ >take over the "management" of the allocations, not the routing.
@ >In some cases, the registry would not have any addresses
@ >to allocate because their address space is full. They would
@ >just collect lease revenues and work on reclamation.
@ >This situation would have zero impact on the routing tables.
@ 
@ Wild.   I now understand what you're proposing.
@ 
@ What possible benefit could there be to having a for-profit
@ company charging existing allocations management fees??

Again...these are not "for profit"...they are InterNIC clones...
The idea is to clone the IS, DS, RS InterNIC model. By
working this diplomatically via the State, the "profits" would
hopefully be kept in check. I would think people would have
learned that lesson from the InterNIC if they learned anything.

Here is the summary again...

1. Keep the InterNIC prototype in place until September 1998
	when the U.S. Government's Cooperative Agreement
	ends with AT&T and NSI who are the remaining two
	companies that form what is called the InterNIC.

2. Allow companies to clone the InterNIC with the following
	Internet resources:
		1. 3 Top Level Domain Names
		2. One /8 IP Address Space

3. Encourage this cloning via forty-nine $250,000 grants from the
	National Science Foundation which would come
	from the Internet Infrastructure fund which has over
	$12,000,000 for this type of purpose.

4. Allocate one grant to each state and direct the U.S. Senators
	to work with the Governor to select THREE companies
	in each state to "outsource" a Cooperative Agreement
	similar to the ORIGINAL InterNIC plan to have IS, DS, and
	RS functions.
	As an example, the State of Virginia had...
		IS - General Atomics
		DS - AT&T
		RS - Network Solutions, Inc.
	an IS company needs to be selected there.

5. The NSF bows out in September 1998, the proud parent of
	up to 50 InterNICs which serve the U.S. and the world...

6. These 50 InterNICs then help to coordinate a world collection
	of Root Name Server confederations to provide world-wide
	stability to the entire Internet.


P.S. Obviously the THREE companies bidding might be profit
making companies. They may not make much profit off their
State InterNIC activity. The citizens will watch that.

P.P.S. One question that has come up is, could AT&T or
Network Solutions go to all the States where they have a
major presence and bid on one of the pieces (IS, DS, RS) ?
In my opinion, the answer has to be yes and if they have
the best "cooperative" proposal, the people of that State
will get the best service. That is the goal...is it not...?

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation

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