[476] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Authority over IANA & IP #s was Re: 206.82.160.0/22
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hans-Werner Braun)
Sat Sep 23 02:10:04 1995
From: hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu (Hans-Werner Braun)
To: cook@cookreport.com
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 23:09:42 PDT
Cc: nanog@MERIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950922210726.23424A-100000@tigger.jvnc.net>; from "Gordon Cook" at Sep 22, 95 9:11 pm
Resent-From: nanog@MERIT.EDU
>Sorry to disagree with you Donald but i have been quite explicitly told
>that if IANA is under the authority of anyone it is under the authority
>of NOT DoD NOR NSF but rather the **Advanced Research Projects Agency**
I assume by some approximation ARPA is to DoD what NCRI is to NSF.
Part of a specific agency. NCRI is home of the NSFNET program. ARPA is
not an independent agency. TCP/IP came clearly out of ARPA, though.
