> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owner-Domain-Policy [mailto:owner-domain-policy@INTERNIC.NET]On
> Behalf Of domainiac
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 3:26 PM
> To: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET
> Subject: Re: [IDNO-DISCUSS] Re: [IFWP] RE: who tells the quill holder
> what
>
>
> >Almost every major ISP does exactly this becasue it
> >enhances high-availability architectures and eliminates the
> >root-servers.net machines as external points of failure (EPOF). When
> --
> >I've done work with 8 area ISPs, and not a single one does this
> >Roland. I seriously doubt very many ISPs at all do this.
> --
> Here are some articles that touch on this point:
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/17973.html
>
> http://news.com/News/Item/0,4,32591,00.html?
>
> The news.com article the number of total zone file
> subscriptions was about
> 500 and that included users who used the zone files for other reasons.
>
> This brings up another issue about NSI's and the zone files. NSI is
> requiring companies to tell NSI why they are using the zone
> files before NSI
> will even send a copy of the agreement to access the zone
> files. These
> companies are often competing with NSI for the same customers
> for services
> outside the scope of the Internic function (domain hosting, e-mail
> forwarding, etc.). In addition, NSI put stipulations in the
> agreement that
> they could cut off access in the future at their discretion.
>
> I therefore asked for zone file access through NTIA via FOIA.
> Kathy Smith,
> chief counsel for NTIA wrote back and said they did search
> for zone files
> but they couldn't find them! I appealed this based on the
> fact the records
> are under the control of NTIA under the cooperative agreement
> with NSI. I
> am waiting for a response.
>
> Russ Smith
> http://domainia.org
>