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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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