Re: Specific Questions

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 8:32 PM +0000 12/26/96, David R. Conrad wrote:

> >General Atomics got kicked out the InterNIC.
>
> Yes, because the annual review panel didn't think they lived up to the
> requirements.
>
> >That's more than just a modification to a contract.
>
> 1) it wasn't a contract, it was a cooperative agreement.
>

Woopeedoo. It is still a written agreement.

> 2) I believe the cooperative agreement was written such that the
> InterNIC participants had their performance reviewed and if they
> didn't perform, the cooperative agreement would be terminated.
>

And it was terminated. That's more than just a modification to a
contract. That's the enforcement of it.

> >NSF saw fit to change the agreement to allow NSI to charge money.
>
> I believe it was always intended that the various parts of InterNIC
> would develop user based charging.
>

Good grief! Charging is not my point. The point is that the agreement
was modified. If it can be modified once it can be modified again. This
time it needs to be modified to bring it in line with the new "shared"
TLD space.


Regards,

Simon

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