Should NSF declare victory and leave?

Sun Oct 27 16:14:30 UTC 1996

On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Paul A Vixie wrote:

> I think this would be a bad thing.  NS needs a watchdog.
> 

Cook:  I think I agree.  It would leave NSI in defacto control of a
valuable resource. As far as I know, other than through the NSF
co-operative agreement, NSI has
no contractual or legal obligations to the Internet community??  Would it
be pulling the plug of stability at the very time when others are trying
to launch competing mechanisms?

Could or should ISOC step in if NSF vacates these shoes?