RE: NEWDOM: Re: offtopic for NANOG - do not read

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming () Unir Corp>]

On Saturday, April 26, 1997 11:49 AM, Carl Oppedahl[SMTP:carl () oppedahl com] wrote:
@ At 01:46 PM 04/26/97 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
@ 
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@ 
@ >I'd like you to point out the major corporations and public universities who
@ >will do this.  I'd also like you to immediately return that nice root server
@ >that NSI has paid for in part or whole, if you really believe this.
@ 
@ NSI has never paid for anything.  NSI has doled out money collected by it
@ from NSF and from domain name owners.  NSF (i.e. the US taxpayers) and the
@ COM, NET etc. domain name owners have paid for whatever it is you think NSI
@ has paid for.
@ 

Carl,

This is not quite true.

Paul Vixie has stated on the NANOG list that NSI
pays for his equipment. Paul is part of the Internet
Software Consortium (ISC) <http://www.ispc.org>
an IRS approved 501(c) company that accepts
donations so that Paul can write software that
supports the domain name system.

Their web site says they have a $700,000/year budget.

According to the IRS, you can get full-disclosure
on all of this.

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