Re: A long strange trip

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 9:40 PM -0800 12/24/96, Thom Stark wrote:

> Carl  stated:
>
> > I agree the playing field is slanted.  NSF somehow gave NSI a plum, and NSI
> > is squeezing the plum for all it's worth (and making terrible decisions in
> > domain name trademark matters as well).  When the NSI contract expires, NSI
> > has said it intends to keep running COM answering to no one.  The Internet
> > community will be best served if *everyone* keeps clearly in mind,
> > continuously from now till 1998, the importance of eliminating
>NSI's monopoly.
>
> Y'know, one thing the IAB, ISOC and ISOC's Board ought ALL to commit to
> RIGHT NOW is that, when the NSI contract expires, NSI's ability to
> update the DNS root servers should IMMEDIATELY be revoked.
>

This portion can be revoked immediately, leaving them with just the
domain name registration functions until their contract expires.


Regards,

Simon

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