And ICANN is still stuck with paying the salaries. the first solicitation
was not no cost was it? or was it?
>Gordon Cook wrote:
>>NIST on Becky Burrs behalf disembled as follows in the second act of
>>nist's failed earlier effort to give IANA to ICANN:
>
>SNIP
>>see http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/9c102001.htm
>
>Slow to follow up on this message, but at least this amendment to the
>single-source, no cost NIST contract with ICANN is clear in one regard:
>
>"This function, however, does not include authorizing modifications,
>additions, or deletions to the root zone file."
>
>
>Ellen Rony Co-author
>The Domain Name Handbook http://www.domainhandbook.com
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NOTE: Contempt in which ICANN PRES. MIKE ROBERTS holds rest of Internet:
"Some of those people think the management [ICANN] should check with the
public [the Communities of the Internet] every time they make a decision,
which is crazy," Roberts said. "That's flat-out crazy." WIRED NEWS 2/4/99
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