OK, 'co-operative agreement'. But that is to all intents and purposes a contract with the USG. What do you mean 'not be rebid without ... authorisation'. Do you mean that it will just get left with NSI for ever? What mechanism was the extension granted under? What authority would any further extension be granted under? Ivan > -----Original Message----- > From: Gordon Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 8:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IFWP] Re: The ICANN Accreditation Policy: Dissimulation > and Duplicity? > > > 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 > > ************************************************************** > ************* > The COOK Report on Internet | New handbook just > published:IP Insur- > 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA| gency & Transformation > of Telecomm.See > (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) | > http://cookreport.com/insurgency.html > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Index to 7 years of COOK Report, how to > subscribe, exec summaries, special reports, gloss at http://www.cookreport.com **************************************************************************** **
