[9510] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Advisory Committee on the NII
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Judith E. Grass)
Fri Jan 7 08:48:07 1994
To: Bruce Gingery <lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu>
Cc: com-priv <com-priv@psi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jan 1994 21:15:15 MST."
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 08:45:54 -0500
From: "Judith E. Grass" <jgrass@cnri.reston.va.us>
>> Mr. Robert E. Kahn
>> President
>> Corporation for National Research Initiatives
>> No match for "NATIONAL RESEARCH INITIATIVES" nor anything close
>> in the rs whois database.
Try "NRI". You will find that in the rs whois database.
If you try "kahn" in the ds database (whois -h ds.internic.net kahn)
you will find him there. If you try "nri" in ds, you will get a list of
most of the folks that work here.
>> It DOES make one wonder just how interested this advisory board is in
>> maintenance of connectability at the individual level!
The fact that you can't find these folks using the RS database at the
Internic and using finger may be more a reflection of the rotten
state of Internet directory services than anything that these people have
done or not done. The Internic does not register absolutely everyone
(nor all possible variants of the names they do register), and fingers
are being lopped off in the name of security and privacy.
Seems to me on a different thread here (RE: Inmac), folks are suggesting
that even building such directories may be an invasion of privacy...
-- Judy Grass
