-----Original Message----- From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com> To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu> Date: Friday, September 04, 1998 12:50 AM Subject: Re: Director Database Marketing (Herndon VA US)

Actually, there is a nice US Supreme Court ruling that any documents under the _control_ of the agency _are_ subject to FOIA.

The database that moved from SRI to NSI did so as part of a contract with NSF (and DARPA before them). Therefore, the control argument should hold. But you'd have to test it in court.

Some folks are already there... http://name.space.xs2.net/law/answers/ Jim Fleming Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com