[9242] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI and competition to RIPE and APNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun May 11 07:20:44 1997
Date: Sun, 11 May 97 04:14 PDT
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>>> It appears NSI is establishing franchises throughout the world and the
>>> franchisees get commissions on domains and IP nets handed out.
>> And what justification do you have for this rumor? Or is it more black
>> helicopters?
> I just spoke to a franchisee who gave me all the information listed. He
> says NSI has something known as "levels" and he is known as a Level II
> franchisee (total of 3 levels - with small local ISPs being level III).
> He did not know who the other franchisees are but did say he saw something
> in the paper about one being set up in UK and in Switzerland.
To allocate IP space?
randy
