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Transition of Nic Services

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Network Working Group                                      S. Williamson
Request for Comments: 1261                                     L. Nobile
                                                       Network Solutions
                                                          September 1991


                       TRANSITION OF NIC SERVICES

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard.  Distribution of this memo is
   unlimited.

Discussion

   The transition of the Network Information Center from SRI
   International in Menlo Park, CA, to Government Systems Inc. in
   Chantilly, VA, is officially scheduled for 1 October 1991.  This
   includes the transition of services currently offered to DDN and
   Internet users by SRI.  These services include network/user
   registration (i.e., network number and top level domain name
   assignment), on-line information services, and Help Desk operations.
   GSI will also continue RFC and Internet-Draft archive and
   distribution services.

   SRI will continue to provide all NIC services and respond to all user
   calls and requests until 30 September 1991.

   Defense Information System Agency (DISA) and GSI will make every
   effort to ensure a smooth and timely transition of NIC services from
   SRI.  Network users should be minimally impacted.  With a few minor
   exceptions, all on-line services currently offered by SRI will appear
   the same to the user when a connection is established to the new
   (GSI) NIC host.  These exceptions are due to the change from the
   TOPS20 operating system to the SunOS operating system.  The new NIC
   host is a Sun 470 SPARCserver running SunOS 4.1.  All users on the
   DDN and the Internet should carefully note the following changes:

   U.S. Postal Address:      Government Systems, Inc.
                             Attn: Network Information Center
                             14200 Park Meadow Drive
                             Suite 200
                             Chantilly, VA  22021







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