[19288] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Director Database Marketing (Herndon VA US)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Fri Sep 4 11:12:04 1998
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 10:49:54 -0400
To: "William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Stephen Wolff <swolff@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <7530.wsimpson@greendragon.com>
SRI lost to NSI in a competitive procurement run by DISA, and SRI turned
over the database to NSI as a consequence.
The DISA contract with NSI only covered USG-related material (e.g., .GOV,
.MIL), so NSF and DISA executed an agreement under which NSI would convert
and maintain *all* of the database in return for a month-to-month payment
of (memory's a bit hazy here) $20k, while NSF prepared, issued, and
executed a competitive solicitation for NIC services for non-USG customers
- including .EDU, obviously but also .COM.
When the dust settled on the peer-reviewed and competitive NSF
solicitation, NSI had won the registration piece; this avoided yet another
transfer of the non-USG-related part of the database to the winner.
-s
