4 Sep
1998
4 Sep
'98
10:49 a.m.
SRI lost to NSI in a competitive procurement run by DISA, and SRI turned over the database to NSI as a consequence. The DISA contract with NSI only covered USG-related material (e.g., .GOV, .MIL), so NSF and DISA executed an agreement under which NSI would convert and maintain *all* of the database in return for a month-to-month payment of (memory's a bit hazy here) $20k, while NSF prepared, issued, and executed a competitive solicitation for NIC services for non-USG customers - including .EDU, obviously but also .COM. When the dust settled on the peer-reviewed and competitive NSF solicitation, NSI had won the registration piece; this avoided yet another transfer of the non-USG-related part of the database to the winner. -s