NSI and competition to RIPE and APNIC
Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Sun May 11 17:12:00 UTC 1997
>>>>>>> It appears NSI is establishing franchises throughout the world and the
>>>>>>> franchisees get commissions on domains and IP nets handed out.
>>>>>> And what justification do you have for this rumor? Or is it more black
>>>>>> helicopters?
>>>>> I just spoke to a franchisee who gave me all the information listed. He
>>>>> says NSI has something known as "levels" and he is known as a Level II
>>>>> franchisee (total of 3 levels - with small local ISPs being level III).
>>>>> He did not know who the other franchisees are but did say he saw
>>>>> something in the paper about one being set up in UK and in Switzerland.
>>>> To allocate IP space?
>>> So said the franchisee to me by phone.
>> Well, since we can be fairly confident that part is false, we should be very
>> suspicious of the rest, eh?
> He is a new IBM customer in Israel and has no reason to be pulling my leg.
> I figure in a few weeks time it will become clearer.
Cool. Then maybe we should wait until then to start the rumors, paranoia,
FUD, etc.
randy
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