Re: Why you should support the Green Paper

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From: Russell Nelson
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 00:00

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Karl Denninger writes:
 > The US Government owns (because they paid for) what was there in September 
 > of '95.  About 100,000 entries.  
 > 
 > They do NOT own the rest, because NSI cut off their own funding by mutual
 > agreement between themselves and the NSF on that date.  From that point
 > forward, which happens to be 90%+ of the existing registrations, they
 > operated as a private concern.

This is too wrong for words.  NSI maintains a database which has ZERO
value without its zones being in the root zone maintained by IANA.
And the IANA is paid by whom?  The U.S. government.

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