@ 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.