[128147] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sun Jul 25 12:05:39 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007250018420.1689@qbhto.arg>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:02:09 -0700
To: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>>=20
>> For bonus points, explain how the numbers side of IANA pays for =
anything when the RIRs stop funding it?
>=20
> David already answered more eloquently than I could, so I'll simply =
add that what he said applied when I was there as well. The IANA is, and =
always has been a cost center. You don't want to live in an IANA =
fee-for-service world.
>=20
My point was that as a cost center, IANA depends on funding from other =
sources. The RIRs are a major source of that funding.
Owen
