Ivan, NSF does not have a five year contract. It has a cooperative
agreement and there is no way in hell that the coopertaive agreement will
be rebid without congressional authorization to do so..
>
>
> Tony,
>It seems to me that actually NSI has 'nothing' except an informally granted
>extension to an expired 5 year contract from the USG. So it is vital to NSI
>as well that a Registry/Registrar system is set up and consolidated.
>Otherwise they could lose everything by losing the Registry contract. This
>way they at least hedge their bets.
>And though the DNS works fine, access to it and support for it is seriously
>skewed.
>Ivan
>
>ICANN presently has nothing - and may at most acquire
>single root zone file - to the extent that those running
>DNS servers chose to point to it.
>
>The DNS works fine right now. To the extent ICANN has
>any value-add, it's in doing the same thing the Jon did -
>facilitating coherent cooperation. ...and that's not
>control.
>
>
>--tony
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