North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Network Solutions on TV
At 10:03 11/16/98 -0800, you wrote: >> This actually raises an operational concern. A little >> traceroute will show you that www.networksolutions.com and >> the worldnic stuff are down the same pipes as the internic.net >> stuff. With the DNS problems of the past few days, one has >> to ask, would "internic" activities have worked just fine if >> Network Solutions had not been using some {small,large} amount >> of the bandwidth for their other commercial activities. >> >> Not that I hold out any hope of the two activities using >> separate facilities, but it would be nice. > >Such seperation is mandated by the latest Amendment to the Cooperative >Agreement between the U.S. Government and NSI. However it doesn't have to >occur for several months still. I'm afraid I can't find that provision in any amendment to the Cooperative Agreement as posted at http://rs.internic.net/nsf/agreement/. However, Amendment 11 (7 Oct 98) is interesting because it mandates that the specifications and milestones for the Shared Registry System be given to the USG by 1 Nov 98 and that all the data accrued by NSI in it's registration process be turned over to the USG by 7 Nov 98. Have these provisions been effected? Has the SRS been planned out yet? NSI? Spammers should be investigated by Ken Starr! Dean Robb PC-EASY computer services (757) 495-EASY [3279]
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