The cooperative agreement will end and they will in all liklihood still be
issuing .com, .net.org etc....they will not fold their tents and go
away....not hardly.
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On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Jeff Woods wrote:
> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,9985,00.html
>
> Domain names out of
> NSF's hands
> By Margie Wylie
> April 23, 1997, 12:15 p.m. PT
>
> The National Science Foundation will bow out of
> assigning domain names no later than March 1998,
> the federal agency announced today.
>
> In response to an internal report generated in
> February and made public today, acting deputy
> director Joseph Bordogna said the NSF will not
> renew its InterNIC agreement with Network
> Solutions, the private company that assigns global
> top-level domains such as ".com" and ".org" under
> agreement with the federal agency. Network
> Solutions' agreement ends in March 1998.
>
> Instead, the NSF will "focus its attention on the
> challenges and opportunities of the next-generation
> Internet in support of education in science and
> engineering," Bordogna said in a prepared statement
> today.
>
> Just what will become of the domain name-assigning
> business handled by the InterNIC, however, is
> unclear. Though the NSF clearly indicated it will not
> continue with the responsibility, it is still working on
> a plan to privatize domain naming with oversight
> from a more "appropriate agency," long speculated
> to be the Federal Communications Commission.
>
> The statement also said that the transition plans
> would be made in cooperation with the Clinton
> administration, which has assembled an interagency
> task force chaired by the Office of Management and
> Budget last month, to study the issue.
>
> Bordogna's response to the report mentioned
> several two of the three competing plans to privatize
> domain name registration. Though he didn't say he
> favored one plan over another, the International Ad
> Hoc Committee (IAHC) was described glowingly,
> Network Solution's recent plan was mentioned
> briefly, and the independent Extended Domain
> Name Service (eDNS) Coalition was snubbed
> altogether.
>
> Representatives from the White House, Network
> Solutions and IAHC were not immediately available
> for comment.
>
> -30-
>
> It's about @#$%^&* time.
>
>
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