The NSF has been very lax in its management of
the InterNIC. At one point in time, the Inspector
General of the NSF, Linda Sundro was trying to
figure out what was going on. If you read some of
her reports to congress, you will see that she was
not able to figure out what was really going on.
She has now resigned and a temporary IG is in
place.
Recently, the Director of the NSF has been replaced.
The former Director, Neal Lane has supposedly
been moved to the White House to an office that
sounds similar to the role that Ira Magaziner has.
It is unclear why Neal Lane was moved, but letters
from him about Linda Sundro's activities show that
he was not cooperative with her attempts to figure
out what was going on.
The NSF has a $3.8 billion dollar per year (and growing)
annual budget. Some of that goes to MERIT and
helps to fund mailing lists like this. It is too bad that
the people at the NSF are lost in a sea of information
that they help to fund. Their solution seems to be to
stir the waters and make sure that the people and
story keep changing. The Congress apparently has
little or no ability to figure out what is going on because
they are kept in the dark in a boat floating on the
murky waters. If they stick their hand in the water
a shark might take it away. The Congress has not
figured out that the solution might be to drain the
swamp. With the NSF up to their ears in sharks,
their solution is to keep throwing the sharks more
food.
Jim Fleming
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Jimmy spews his usual disinformation
The NSF has been very lax in its management of
the InterNIC. At one point in time, the Inspector
General of the NSF, Linda Sundro was trying to
figure out what was going on. If you read some of
her reports to congress, you will see that she was
not able to figure out what was really going on.
Quite a euphemism for what she had up her sleeve Jimmy. She excercised a
reign of terror at NSF from the late 80's until earlier this year and to
the extent that agency has been disfunctional it was thanks to linda. i
obtained my first documentation of how she was hated by staff in 1994.
She finally did herself in last winter when she decided that she knew how
to fix the DNS NSI problem by having the NSF take over and administer .com
registrations as an excise tax on behalf of the US government.
Interested parties may read her report in all its glorious brazen stupidity
at http://cookreport.com/igreport.shtml
She has now resigned and a temporary IG is in
place.
Director Neal Lane finally the good sense to reject her recommendations and
at that point, like the wicked witch of the west, she crumbled and
disappeared.
Recently, the Director of the NSF has been replaced.
The former Director, Neal Lane has supposedly
been moved to the White House to an office that
sounds similar to the role that Ira Magaziner has.
uh....Jimmy, the job is called Science Adviser to the President. Lane
directs OSTP...the job that jack Gibbons used to have.
It is unclear why Neal Lane was moved, but letters
from him about Linda Sundro's activities show that
he was not cooperative with her attempts to figure
out what was going on.
What his lack of cooperation shows is that Lane understood the legislative
manadate of NSF was not to become a tax collection agency.