At 11:08 AM 5/25/99 -0700, Karl Auerbach wrote:
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>Everyone involved noted how when NSI took over, the quality of service
>substantially declined.
Wow! you talked to everyone? Did you take an online poll or just called
everyone up?
>
>In other words, NSI didn't bring anything new to the party. SRI could
>have just as well ramped up its operations. In fact SRI had a substantial
>advantage -- it could at least spell "computer" and "network".
Karl, first you call NSI staff members administrative janitors now you say
they can't even spell, and all of this after reading your self-aggrandizing
discourse on how you practically invented the Internet alone because you
had a job at ARPANET. Just because you're old and gray doesn't mean that
you're any better or more worthy than the rest of us and that *includes*
NSI staff.
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>And are you telling me that NSI went into the contract without knowing
>what would be involved in doing the job?
Oh, I guess you alone knew the Internet and domain registrations would grow
at the rate it has. Remind me to call you next time I need a psychic reading.
>
>
>> That you would even
>> try to compare the service requirements between 1991 and now is laughable.
>
>Nobody is making that comparision. Rather, we are pointing out that NSI
>stepped into a set of well established shoes on a well lit path.
They weren't well established...period. The growth alone would've made
redesigning the entire system and process necessary.
>
>And even then NSI didn't have the guts to do it at a fixed rate, they did
>it as cost+fee.
>
>It wasn't until it was so clear that they could not lose money that NSI
>asked NSF to change the fundamental rules of the contract.
>> In 1993, NSI was awarded the InterNIC RS contract and domain registrations
>> went through the roof
>
>When the rate increased, NSI asked, and NSF granted, a change that would
>increase NSI's profits, but not increase NSI's risk.
You don't have a clue. I guess the facts just don't matter to you when
it's so much more interesting to make stuff up.
Enough!
Kim
