[19208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Wed Sep 2 14:07:08 1998
To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
cc: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Sep 1998 13:32:31 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 10:51:50 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
> Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 13:32:31 -0400
> From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
> Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>
> Actually, I think this issue dates back to when Network Solutions thought
> they "owned" the database, and had some plans to sell it. There was a lot
> of pushback to that idea, which they eventually dropped. But they have
> still resisted letting anyone else have the full database.
>
> I don't think they are actually concerned so much with abuse as they are
> with trying to maintain or establish a proprietary control over the
> database. Of course, "abuse prevention" is a good cover for proprietary
> control.
ESnet had no problems getting access to the databases from NSI. We
just asked, explained why we wanted access and promised not to use it
improperly. I think we had a password to FTP the files in less than a
day.
This does not sound like "proprietary control" (though I'm unsure what
this is).
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
