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From: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown)
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Subject: Re: ANS Acceptable Use Policy
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Date: 2 Apr 91 00:14:29 GMT
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ereiamjh@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Tom B. O'Toole) writes:
|nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle) writes:
|>    Where does ANS get the authority to make policy?  ANS is a subcontractor
|>to MERIT, which is a contractor to the National Science Foundation.
|
|   I would also like to know how this arrangement came about. I have read
|a couple of articles in newspapers and some dicussion in this group and am
|still confused. Was there any kind of open bidding? It seems like some pork
|was thrown IBM's way (and MCI, an IBM running buddy), but I didn't see any
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I'm confused by this claim. Details?

|hard facts as to the details of the arrangement, if anyone can clarify this,
|I would appreciate it. I would rather not have IBM running the operation of
|the internet, but I guess if it was an open bid, and to be up for grabs
|periodically, I can't really argue with that.

I'm pretty understanding of why IBM's such a big target...it *is*. However,
could you explicate *why* you feel this way?



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