[442] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Goverment-sponsorship and name servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Mar 25 15:42:28 1991
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 14:43:30 CST
From: SEAN@dranet.dra.com (Sean Donelan)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
X-Vmsmail-To: SMTP%"com-priv@uu.psi.com"
I noticed that the NIC has changed the DOMAIN-TEMPLATE.TXT form. They now
require name servers for domains to be on Government-sponsored networks.
How does this effect customers of non-government sponsered networks like
Alternet and PSInet? Is there some background to this change?
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File DOMAIN-TEMPLATE.TXT;2
87 (7) Domains must provide at least two independent servers
88 on Government-sponsored networks that provide the domain
89 service for translating names to addresses for hosts in
90 this domain.
91
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File DOMAIN-TEMPLATE.TXT;1
87 (7) Domains must provide at least two independent servers that
88 provide the domain service for translating names to addresses
89 for hosts in this domain.
90
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