[462] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Authority over IANA & IP #s was Re: 206.82.160.0/22
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Sep 22 17:47:59 1995
From: paul@hawksbill.sprintmrn.com (Paul Ferguson)
To: dee@cybercash.com (Donald E. Eastlake 3rd)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 17:44:29 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cook@cookreport.com, Eric.M.Aupperle@um.cc.umich.edu, hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu,
ietf@CNRI.Reston.VA.US, nanog@MERIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950922171123.807A-100000@cybercash.com> from "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" at Sep 22, 95 05:17:57 pm
Resent-From: nanog@MERIT.EDU
>
> I'm puzzled why anyone would think that, these days, IANA is under
> US DoD authority. If IANA were under any US Goverment authority,
> it would be NSF. But IANA is appointed by the IAB which is not
> under US gov authority except to the extent that it has ties to
> ISOC and ISOC is incorporated in the US.
>
> Like most "authority" in the Internet, IANA controls the IP address
> space because it is to everyone's advantage to cooperate. Anyone can
> get up a machine and use any IP address they want, they will just have
> a lot of trouble talking to anyone else if they don't coordinate with
> IANA (or actually the registries to whom IANA has delegated almost all
> the day to day coordination activities).
>
Hell, I kinda appreciated the hijack discussion myself. :-)
- paul
