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Re: What does the NIC in InterNIC mean? "Network Incompetence Consortium"

  • From: Patrick Greenwell
  • Date: Sat Jan 16 12:49:05 1999

On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, John Fraizer wrote:

> I would like to thank the anonymous party who sent the email below.  It
> confirms the rumors I had heard related to the cause of the latest InterNIC
> SNAFU.
> 
> >Subject: What does the NIC in InterNIC mean? "Network Incompetence
> Consortium" (fwd)
> >To: [email protected]
> >
> >
> >The service from InterNIC has been really poor for the last couple of
> >weeks, and they finally admitted what the problem is, but only to their
> >Premier Partners, and only after making up lots of other stories to cover
> >it up first.

I have no great love for NSI, however that statement is simply untrue. 

A mention of the problem was made on the [email protected]
list several days ago by Chuck Gomes, a representitive of NSI. The
DOMAIN-POLICY list is an open list and not restricted to Premier Partners. 

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