Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 13:32:31 -0400
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Sender: owner-nanog@merit.eduActually, I think this issue dates back to when Network Solutions thought
they "owned" the database, and had some plans to sell it. There was a lot
of pushback to that idea, which they eventually dropped. But they have
still resisted letting anyone else have the full database.I don't think they are actually concerned so much with abuse as they are
with trying to maintain or establish a proprietary control over the
database. Of course, "abuse prevention" is a good cover for proprietary
control.
ESnet had no problems getting access to the databases from NSI. We
just asked, explained why we wanted access and promised not to use it
improperly. I think we had a password to FTP the files in less than a
day.
This does not sound like "proprietary control" (though I'm unsure what
this is).
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634