[9245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI and competition to RIPE and APNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun May 11 13:20:09 1997
Date: Sun, 11 May 97 10:12 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?
>>> So said the franchisee to me by phone.
>> Well, since we can be fairly confident that part is false, we should be very
>> suspicious of the rest, eh?
> He is a new IBM customer in Israel and has no reason to be pulling my leg.
> I figure in a few weeks time it will become clearer.
Cool. Then maybe we should wait until then to start the rumors, paranoia,
FUD, etc.
randy
