RE: Yesterday's Congressional Hearing

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming at doorstep.unety.net>]

I did some more checking. I called the 800 number that NASA has
posted below. I spoke to a very nice fellow named Roger. He was not
sure who was in charge of the "E Root Server" but after asking around
the computer room he came up with the name Dave Garrett and said
that Dave's phone number is 650-604-4787.

While on the call with Roger I asked if Curt Howland had anything to
do with the E Root Server. Roger chuckled and said that Curt worked
there but that the number below is for the WAN operations and people
do not know about the E Root Server.

I started think about this and decided to check my mail log. I discovered
the message below from James Slayden which I hope helps to give people
a better feel that the NASA server is safe and secure. For some reason,
in drafting my note to Tony, I recalled this nice note from Mr. Slayden
and attributed the NASA response to be from Curt Howland. After further
review of Mr. Howland's notes, I see that he was trying to provide an
alternative view from NASA. I hope that Mr. Slayden's view is the official
view.


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Jim,

e.root-servers.net is already run from a secure NASA facility by NASA contractor
personnel.  The NIC record is correct and up to date.

James S.

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James B. Slayden Jr.		Network Engineer/DNS Administrator
slayden at nsipo.nasa.gov		NASA Integrated Network Services (NISN)
650-604-6404			NASA Ames Research Center       
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On Wednesday, April 01, 1998 3:44 AM, Curt Howland[SMTP:howland at nsipo.arc.nasa.gov] wrote:
@
@I wasn't reassuring you, Mr. Fleming, I was laughing
@at you.
@
@> From JimFleming at doorstep.unety.net  Wed Apr  1 09:39:13 1998
@...
@> In closing I would point out that if the Internet was like the airline
@> industry and we found that some of the FAA towers were operated
@> by people that wanted to experiment with having commercial
@> airliners flying at all different altitudes, people would expect the
@> U.S. Government to step in to inform their contractors that this
@> is not an experiment that the American people want to pay for...
@> -
@> Jim Fleming
@> Unir Corporation
@> IBC, Tortola, BVI
@
@That's the easiest one in the world to answer: Don't
@force the American people to pay for it. If you don't
@like the service, take your business elsewhere.
@
@Please remove me from your direct mailing list.
@
@Curt-
@
@

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E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET

NASA Ames Research Center (NS-NASA)
   Mail Stop 233-8
   Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
   USA

   Hostname: E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
   Address: 192.203.230.10
   System: SUN running SUNOS

   Coordinator:
      Operations, Nsi Network  (NNO2)  noc at NSIPO.NASA.GOV
      (800) 424-9920 (415) 604-0063 (FAX) (415) 604-0063

   domain server

   Record last updated on 07-Nov-97.
   Database last updated on 29-Mar-98 03:40:13 EST.

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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI