[8880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: offtopic for NANOG - do not read
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Sat Apr 26 16:45:30 1997
In-Reply-To: <19970426144021.26657@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 13:22:15 -0700
To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
Cc: Geoff White <geoffw@precipice.v-site.net>, Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>,
Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu, edns-discuss@mcs.net,
newdom@ar.com
At 12:40 PM -0700 4/26/97, Karl Denninger wrote:
>For 90% of that database, the development and operation was paid for with
>*private funds* as a *private, for-profit, revenue-funded* business.
under a government agreement, with a government assignment of
responsibility and government review and approval of the fees.
the agreement, by the way, says that the data belong to the government.
>NSI put up the risk capital to do this. They did so with no guarantee
>of a profit, and in fact claim they have lost money.
no, really they didn't, since the captial came from the revenue stream.
>I believe that if push comes to shove, this will be supported through legal
>process.
and I believe they won't. ain't it great to have all these free
legal opinions floating around?
>This is what I've been saying for 18 months, but nobody wanted to hear it
>then because it was politically unpalatable.
or, perhaps, because your legal opinions are even less than mine,
and that's going some.
d/
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