far out.

+http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,9985,00.html
+
+                Domain names out of
+                NSF's hands 
+                By Margie Wylie
+                April 23, 1997, 12:15 p.m. PT 
+
+                The National Science Foundation will bow out of
+                assigning domain names no later than March 1998,
+                the federal agency announced today.
+
+                In response to an internal report generated in
+                February and made public today, acting deputy
+                director Joseph Bordogna said the NSF will not
+                renew its InterNIC agreement with Network
+                Solutions, the private company that assigns global
+                top-level domains such as ".com" and ".org" under
+                agreement with the federal agency. Network
+                Solutions' agreement ends in March 1998.
+
+                Instead, the NSF will "focus its attention on the
+                challenges and opportunities of the next-generation
+                Internet in support of education in science and
+                engineering," Bordogna said in a prepared statement
+                today.
+
+                Just what will become of the domain name-assigning
+                business handled by the InterNIC, however, is
+                unclear. Though the NSF clearly indicated it will not
+                continue with the responsibility, it is still working on
+                a plan to privatize domain naming with oversight
+                from a more "appropriate agency," long speculated
+                to be the Federal Communications Commission.
+
+                The statement also said that the transition plans
+                would be made in cooperation with the Clinton
+                administration, which has assembled an interagency
+                task force chaired by the Office of Management and
+                Budget last month, to study the issue. 
+
+                Bordogna's response to the report mentioned
+                several two of the three competing plans to privatize
+                domain name registration. Though he didn't say he
+                favored one plan over another, the International Ad
+                Hoc Committee (IAHC) was described glowingly,
+                Network Solution's recent plan was mentioned
+                briefly, and the independent Extended Domain
+                Name Service (eDNS) Coalition was snubbed
+                altogether.
+
+                Representatives from the White House, Network
+                Solutions and IAHC were not immediately available
+                for comment.
+
+-30-
+
+It's about §#$%^&* time.
+
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