RE $50 Million NSF windfall??

[Jim Fleming]

On Wednesday, March 12, 1997 4:42 PM, John Curran[SMTP:jcurran at BBNPLANET.COM] wrote:
@ At 16:59 3/12/97, Jim Fleming wrote:
@ 
@ >Has it occurred to you that the NSF may have to
@ >reclaim rights because of the massive revenue
@ >stream that apparently is NOT being generated...?
@ 
@ Given that paying for DNS names is a relatively
@ new concept, I can understand the desire to be
@ somewhat cautious before dropping registrations
@ for lack of payment (I'd certainly be concerned
@ if the long-term intention was to have only a 
@ 50% payment rate, but that's unlikely to be the 
@ situation).
@ 

John,

The issue is not caution about dropping names.
The issue is that Network Solutions, Inc. has been
working on other projects (like ARIN) and they
have not gotten the basics working. Now they
are outsourcing much of the work to try to
salvage the situation.

This situation was predicted months ago. When
the InterNIC was started THREE functions were
defined, IS, DS, and RS. When the IS company
was removed from the picture some of those IS
functions had to be shifted to the RS contractor
which is Network Systems, Inc. Apparently, the
DS contractor, AT&T, did not pick up any extra
work because the IS funding was shifted to
Network Solutions, Inc.

The NSF should have advertised for an IS contractor.
Since you have been involved from the beginning
maybe you can help describe why the IS company
was not replaced. Why did the RS company take
on the duties of IS and RS, when they could
barely handle RS ?

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation

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