RE: Yesterday's Congressional Hearing

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

On Wednesday, April 01, 1998 5:17 AM, James B. Slayden Jr.[SMTP:slayden at nsipo.arc.nasa.gov] wrote:
@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.
@

Yes, I agree that we need to move forward and continue to
try to identify which of the current legacy Root Name Servers
will be following the U.S. Government's orders. It is nice to know
that NASA will be following orders. It would also be nice if we
could make sure that 100% of the Root Name Servers in the
Cluster the U.S. Government controls will ALL follow orders.

We also need to determine who owns and operates those servers.

Do the people involved have U.S. Government security clearances ?
If so, what level ?

Also, are the privacy rights of the American people being protected ?
For example, are domain name lookups being logged and if so,
who has access to all that data ? Do we really want that kind of
data being tossed about in a jockular manner ?

-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI