[444] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Goverment-sponsorship and name servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jqj@duff.uoregon.edu)
Mon Mar 25 18:14:09 1991
To: SEAN@dranet.dra.com (Sean Donelan)
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Message from SEAN@dranet.dra.com, dated
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 15:12:48 PST
From: jqj@duff.uoregon.edu
>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.
What's a "government sponsored network"? Our domain servers are all on
our campus network (CAN) which is, I suppose, partially funded by
government (both state and federal) money (especially since ours is a
public university), but isn't to my knowledge formally "sponsored". If
"sponsor" is defined as "an organization that pays for or plans and
carries out a project or activity", then it doesn't seem to me that the
CAN at a typical private university connected to an NSF regional will
automatically qualify. Similarly, if we take as the definition of
"sponsor" "one who assumes responsibility for some other person or thing"
I doubt that NSF would want to accept responsibility for Stanford's
network especially given the current investigations of Stanford accounting
practices!
My real point here is that very few domain name servers are "on" Alternet,
PSInet, NSFnet, MILNET, or the NSF regionals. Most are on organization
networks.
