Domain fees to rise...

Mon Sep 7 19:26:19 UTC 1998

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.

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