[449] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Goverment-sponsorship and name servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (April Marine)
Tue Mar 26 11:10:36 1991
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1991 8:07:14 PST
From: April Marine <april@NISC.SRI.COM>
To: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
Cc: jqj@duff.uoregon.edu, SEAN@dranet.dra.com (Sean Donelan),
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 25 Mar 91 18:58:58 -0500
Maybe I can help with the domain template question--at least reduce
the speculation somehwat about "what did the NIC mean here?" Marty is
right. The requirement for servers to be on govt sponsored nets means
only that the server machines must be accessible from the Internet.
The intent here is to weed out companies that have no Internet access
from applying for domains (since the purpose of a domain is to
simplify name to address translation in an internet environment).
Some companies get confused about the difference between a domain
name and a network number, and think that if they have an IP network
address, they should also have a domain. Any machine accessible from
the Internet via the DNS is considered by the NIC to have "government
sponsorship."
thanks,
April Marine
SRI/NIC
