For the historians:
Do people realize that it wasn't even in the budget to
have the 14 of us handling in-addrs, ip allocation/assignment,
SWIP, all of the domain name issues and answer the phones in
early 1995? The whole registration process/budget was not
designed for vanity-tagging the
Just to keep the record straight, it was Amendment 4 (September 13, 1995),
not Amendment 11, that changed the Cooperative Agreement from cost + fixed
fee to a structure that allowed the collection of fees from registrants.
Amendment 11 (October 7, 1998) extended the Cooperative Agreement through
It has always been surprising to me that General Atomics and ATT, who were
part of the initial InterNIC, received no flack for notholding up their
portion of the Cooperative Agreement. Maybe ATT did some work but their
Annual Report of, I believe 1996 didn't even mention that role.
Ellen
I meant industry flak; flak like we all have given NSI. I understood that
GA didn't uphold it's end of the Agreement went quietly into the good night
rarely to be spoken of again. At least NSI stayed the course.
It has always been surprising to me that General Atomics and ATT, who were
part
