[9243] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI and competition to RIPE and APNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Sun May 11 08:16:41 1997
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 15:13:48 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0wQWaF-0007zaC@rip.psg.com>
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Randy Bush wrote:
> >>> 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
>
So said the franchisee to me by phone.
Hank Nussbacher
