Re: Director Database Marketing (Herndon VA US)
At 12:50 PM 9/3/98 -0700, you wrote: Hmm. Here's something interesting from the NSI prospectus regarding the PG Media whoha: -- In addition, the Company recently received written direction from the NSF not to take any action to create additional TLDs or to add any new TLDs to the Internet root servers until further guidance is provided by the NSF -- Presumably, by such a direction, the NSF is exercising control over its own records... Seemingly, one would not exercise control over private records... Another point, perhaps, that these are government records and not private property? --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean@av8.com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 09:59:23PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
Another point, perhaps, that these are government records and not private property?
That's my contention. But the big question is: do we differentiate between WHOIS data and the actual domains? I think NSI claims that the WHOIS data is theirs, regardless of whether the domains themselves belong to them or the public. The WHOIS data is what I don't want being sold. -- "You know, I've decided lizards aren't too smart." --Me, to "Junior", one of my iguanas
At 09:59 PM 09/08/1998 -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
Presumably, by such a direction, the NSF is exercising control over its own records... Seemingly, one would not exercise control over private
records...
Another point, perhaps, that these are government records and not private property?
Mumble. There is no particular reason that these would have to be government records in order for NSF to direct NSI with respect to the contents of the root zone. NSI, by the nature of an existing cooperative agreement, could easily accept such direction. I will note that there are some rather interesting consequences to having records classified as "government records" (e.g. FOIA) and it may actually help put such information directly into the hands of direct marketing folks. I'm not suggesting that having NSI believe the database to be corporate property is any better, only that we face a non-trivial situation here. /John
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