RE: Yesterday's Congressional Hearing

["James B. Slayden Jr." <slayden at nsipo.arc.nasa.gov>]

Ok, Let's get some spin control on this thread.  Curt Howland DOES in fact work
for a NASA subcontract, and IS part of the e.root-servers.net administration
team.  Curt's jockularity is widely known, and should not be construed as a
personal attack against anyone.  We are somewhat beating this thing to death
and could we please move on.  As the previously included email from myself
indicates, all is fine and dandy with e.root-servers.net.  I believe that if
any Governmental policy changes are requested of the root servers, we ALL would
do our best to comply.  Again, we need move on here.


Sincerely,

James S.

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>  From JimFleming at doorstep.unety.net  Wed Apr  1 10:55:36 1998
>  From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming at doorstep.unety.net>
>  To: "amr at CHAOS.COM" <amr at CHAOS.COM>,
>          "'slayden at nsipo.nasa.gov'"
>  	 <slayden at nsipo.nasa.gov>
>  Cc: "BBURR at ntia.doc.gov" <BBURR at ntia.doc.gov>,
>          "cgomes at internic.net"
>  	 <cgomes at internic.net>,
>          "chrisc at NETSOL.COM" <chrisc at NETSOL.COM>,
>          "fred at cisco.com" <fred at cisco.com>,
>          "ietf at ns.ietf.org"
>  	 <ietf at ns.ietf.org>,
>          "Ira_C._Magaziner at oa.eop.gov"
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>  Cc: "karl at cavebear.com" <karl at cavebear.com>,
>          "phil at CHARON.MILEPOST.COM"
>  	 <phil at CHARON.MILEPOST.COM>,
>          "postel at ISI.EDU" <postel at ISI.EDU>,
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>  Subject: RE: Yesterday's Congressional Hearing
>  Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 12:50:14 -0600
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>  
>  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.
>  
>  
>  ========================================
>  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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