InterNIC 2000 - v1.0

[Jim Fleming]

On Wednesday, March 12, 1997 9:44 AM, Kim Hubbard[SMTP:kimh at INTERNIC.NET] wrote:
@ > 
@ > While it is nice to see that the InterNIC has hit the one
@ > million domain name mark, and feels it has handled the
@ > growth well. There are some things that do not match.
@ > For example, people keep hearing reports that the
@ > InterNIC is losing money and that ARIN needs to be
@ > launched because the InterNIC can not afford to pay
@ > for the activity. This does not seem to be what businesses
@ > would call a "proven success".
@ 
@ The only place people keep hearing this report is from you, over and
@ over again.  Your assertion that InterNIC/NSI cannot afford to pay
@ for IP registration is false.  
@ 
@ Please read the ARIN proposal, it clearly states why ARIN is being proposed.
@ 

Let's look at the comments below...before we get to other
people's comments in other forums...

"The US government no longer provides funding to the InterNIC"
	FALSE:
		January 1997
			<http://rs.internic.net/nsf/agreement/amendment5.html>
			$74,617 in legal fees
			$253,300 for domain registrations in .EDU and .GOV

"For the past sixteen months the IP allocation functions have
been subsidized by domain name registration fees."
	MISLEADING:
		The InterNIC is the InterNIC.There is a job to do.
		Revenues hopefully offset expenses. What about
		the millions that were poured into the InterNIC
		prior to domain name charging? Were those
		"purple dollars" and now domains are paid with
		"blue dollars" ? Businesses can not take all
		cost centers and toss them out and only keep
		the profit centers. The business has to be taken
		as a whole.
	Also, Network Solutions, Inc. does private consulting.
	Someone reported $15,000,000 per year, is that correct?
	<http://www.netsol.com> How much of that consulting
	revenue is a result of the fact that Network Solutions hands
	out IP addresses ?

[1] @@@@ http://www.arin.net/arin_faq.html

"2. Why is the proposal happening now? 

The US government no longer provides funding to the InterNIC
for handling IP allocation functions. For the past sixteen
months the IP allocation functions have been subsidized
by domain name registration fees. During the past year,
Internet infrastructure meetings and various discussions in
the Internet community have reached general consensus that
the management of domain names and IP numbers should be
separated. The ARIN proposal is an effort to achieve this
separation and put the management of IP numbers in the
hands of the Internet community."

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According to the above, "general consensus" has been reached.

Can you chronicle a history of this with the
names of the people and references to where
they reached this consensus ?

Also, who at the NSF has endorsed ARIN ?

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation

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