smells like bullshit, who signed their contract for www.nasa.gov
It's not for supporting http, it's who they can ring up if "nasa.gov" (or rather "nasa.fedi") goes down or has issues or gets leaked and no, it can't be a John Doe living at Sampleroad 5.
Well that's the whole point. You could sell fediverse on the government and have them have a server if you told them about butterfly (graf's and pasture's service).
@sun No, this is a thing, sadly. Many moons ago I tried to get Notepad++ approved for NIPR, but since the gov wants someone they can sue if something breaks, it never went anywhere.
@sun For networked services, all that goes through contractors. They lease rack space in a datacenter or host in govCloud and get paid based on meeting SLAs. Almost always easier going that route than creating a program that runs on the end user's machine. DoD had a massive cloud boner back when I was in.
