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At 6:15 AM -0400 4/18/98, Dean Robb wrote: >At 10:43 4/18/98 -0400, you wrote: >>Dean sez: >>All the questions can probably be answered by noting that ARIN is a >>non-profit arm of NSI. >> >>this is not true > >http://rs.arin.net/faq.html > >"17. What are the roles of Network Solutions and the InterNIC? > >NSI�s role is to sponsor ARIN, providing assistance to its establishment >and providing initial support of ARIN until ARIN is self-funding. Once this >is achieved, there will be no ties--financial, management or other--between >the two organizations. ARIN will be an independent, non-profit organization >responding to its membership. " > >Since it is not yet self-funding, what, exactly, part is untrue of my >statement? All of it. While it is still an "arm" of NSI, it is not a non-profit. At some point it will become independent and non-profit. At which point it will not be an arm of the NSI. At no time will it ever be a "non-profit arm of the NSI". --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc [email protected] LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP/DCE http://www.av8.com We Make IT Fly! (617)242-3091 x246 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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