[15934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI Bulletin 098-008 | New Registration Agreement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Mar 30 23:16:05 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 23:00:57 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199803310402.UAA16250@baygate.bayarea.net>; from Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com> on Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 07:57:44PM -0800
On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 07:57:44PM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
> At 10:27 PM 3/30/98 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >NSI don't owe anyone shit...
>
> instead of focusing on the question of NSI, versus not NSI, how about
> noticing that everyone has been overcharged (actually rather more than $15,
> but we'll take what we can get) and notice that the money is still around,
> and then just credit it back to the users.
>
> If that takes a transfer from the USG to NSI, big deal.
Um... the problem, Dave, is still that the word "overcharged" is
incorrect. NSI collected that money _as an agent_ of the government.
They don't have it, much less do they owe it to other people.
It's _that_ misconception which I was trying to correct.
Cheers,
-- jra
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