Cooperative Agreement [Amendment No. 6] - National Science Foundation and Network Solutions Inc.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
4201 WILSON BOULEVARD
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA 22230
Mr. David M. Graves
Contract Administrator
Network Solutions, Inc.
505 Huntmar Park Drive
Herndon, VA 22070
June 23, 1997
Cooperative Agreement No. NCR-9218742
Amendment No. 6
Dear Mr. Graves:
By this amendment, the National Science Foundation hereby approves your Year 4
Annual Report, dated February 6, 1997 and your Year 5 Program Plan dated May 5,
1997 as supplemented by the letter dated June 19, 1997 (and accompanying
budgetary information) and as modified by the changes to pages 12, 13 & 14 (of
the plan itself) and to the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
Articles of Incorporation and Draft Bylaws also submitted by (separate) letter
dated June 19, 1997.
The Foundation has observed the clear expression of the Internet community at
the several workshops (held over the past eighteen months) that IP (Internet
Protocol) number allocation and domain name assignment should be separated. We
believe that the suggestions (first put forward at the December 1996 meeting of
the Internet Engineering Task Force) for the formation of the ARIN and the
followup discussions conducted on the internet mailing lists have been
compelling.
Approval of your Year 5 Program Plan constitutes full approval by the
Foundation that the Awardee proceed with the formation of ARIN as outlined in
the Program Plan. Further, we hereby agree that, at such time as ARIN is
established and operational and Awardee notifies us that items 1 through 8 as
specified on pages 13 and 14 of your Year 5 Program Plan have been completed,
the Foundation will relieve, release and discharge Network Solutions, Inc. from
any responsibility for the IP number assignment, Autonomous System number
assignment, and IN-ADDR.ARPA tasks (currently performed by Awardee under this
agreement) which have been transferred to ARIN.
This final release will be effected by the Awardee sending a letter to the
Foundation stating that:
"Awardee, Network Solutions, Inc., hereby represents and
certifies to the Foundation that, in accordance with the
requirements contained in Amendment No. 6 to Cooperative
Agreement NCR-9218742, all items (1 through 8) relating to the
establishment of the American Registry for Internet Numbers
(ARIN), as specified on pages 13 and 14 of our approved Year 5
Program Plan have been completed."
"We therefore request that, as provided by Amendment No. 6 to
Cooperative Agreement NCR-9218742, NSF sign and return a copy
of this letter in the block indicated below acknowledging that
we have completed the agreed upon items and are fully and
finally relieved, released and discharged from any
responsibility for the IP number assignment, Autonomous System
assignment and IN-ADDR.ARPA tasks previously performed by
Awardee under Cooperative Agreement NCR-9218742 which have now
been transferred to ARIN."
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Except as modified by this amendment, all other Agreement terms and conditions
remain unchanged.
Sincerely,
Karen L. Sandberg
Grants and Agreements Officer