At 02:59 PM 04/26/97 -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
On Saturday, April 26, 1997 11:49 AM, Carl Oppedahl[SMTP:carl@oppedahl.com] wrote:
@ At 01:46 PM 04/26/97 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: @ <snip> @ @ >I'd like you to point out the major corporations and public universities who @ >will do this. I'd also like you to immediately return that nice root server @ >that NSI has paid for in part or whole, if you really believe this.
@ NSI has never paid for anything. NSI has doled out money collected by it @ from NSF and from domain name owners. NSF (i.e. the US taxpayers) and the @ COM, NET etc. domain name owners have paid for whatever it is you think NSI @ has paid for.
Carl,
This is not quite true.
Paul Vixie has stated on the NANOG list that NSI pays for his equipment.
I have no doubt the check was from NSI. I am talking about where the money actually came from, and the answer is either (1) NSF (i.e. the US taxpayers) or (2) the domain name owners paying their $100 or $50 fees.
Paul is part of the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) <http://www.ispc.org> an IRS approved 501(c) company that accepts donations so that Paul can write software that supports the domain name system.
Their web site says they have a $700,000/year budget.
According to the IRS, you can get full-disclosure on all of this.
So what? Nobody doubts that the check Paul Vixie received was written by NSI -- if that's what he says, I believe him. No amount of full disclosure under 501(c)(3) is necessary to learn whose name was on the check. What I am talking about is the source of the money. NSI got it from you and me when we paid our $100 and our $50, or when they collected it from NSF (and thus from you and me).