Re: [IFWP] Re: DOJ investigating NSI

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Crocker 
writes:
> At 03:32 PM 5/7/99 -0400, A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
> When did DOJ acquire the authority to deem the information
> >extracted from a private company's customer database a
> >"public resource?"
> 
> Sometime before that private company decided to give itself the authority 
> to claim ownership over a database that had been public for at least eight 
> years prior to the presumption of private ownership, along with being 
> created and operated by others during those years..

And d'Crock is lying again!

The data base has never been public. The root zone has, and the Whois
data is still available for lookup.

el