Re: ISO 3166 recomendations.

["Marty Modell" <ir001264@mindspring.com>]

>   Sure, and NSI customers who find that **their** customers
> are being misidirected to some bogus .com domain that a ``pirate''
> dns operator has set up will sue. 

The customers don't "belong" to NSI  

NSI becomes just another 
contender for a registry when their contract ends.  Their files 
should be turned back to NSF which gave them the contract in the 
first place.

A basic flaw in the draft is the assumption that NSI will continue to 
be a registry and will be outside of the rules and agreements for all 
other registries.  NSF can if it wishes unilaterally (most government 
issued contracts have such a clause) revoke or modify the contract.  
The contract (OK agreement) is for one year with four optional 
renewals  Each renewal is negotiated whith NSI reuestng changes it 
wants and NSF doing the same.  The renewal #3 was the one that 
negotiated the charges for registration.  No reason why renewal #4 
can negotiate that NSI agree to the CORE-MoU
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Marty Modell                     e-mail: ir001264@mindspring.com 
      http://www.mindspring.com/~ir001264/Home.htm         
                  author of 
      A Professional's Guide to Systems Analysis
         Second Edition - McGraw Hill - 1996