At 10:03 11/16/98 -0800, you wrote:
This actually raises an operational concern. A little traceroute will show you that www.networksolutions.com and the worldnic stuff are down the same pipes as the internic.net stuff. With the DNS problems of the past few days, one has to ask, would "internic" activities have worked just fine if Network Solutions had not been using some {small,large} amount of the bandwidth for their other commercial activities.
Not that I hold out any hope of the two activities using separate facilities, but it would be nice.
Such seperation is mandated by the latest Amendment to the Cooperative Agreement between the U.S. Government and NSI. However it doesn't have to occur for several months still.
I'm afraid I can't find that provision in any amendment to the Cooperative Agreement as posted at http://rs.internic.net/nsf/agreement/. However, Amendment 11 (7 Oct 98) is interesting because it mandates that the specifications and milestones for the Shared Registry System be given to the USG by 1 Nov 98 and that all the data accrued by NSI in it's registration process be turned over to the USG by 7 Nov 98. Have these provisions been effected? Has the SRS been planned out yet? NSI? Spammers should be investigated by Ken Starr! Dean Robb PC-EASY computer services (757) 495-EASY [3279]