On 1/3/2014 3:27 PM, David Conrad wrote:
- Perhaps it is merely your shorthand, but I've found that saying "IANA" as if it is a discrete entity rather than a set of functions performed by a contractor (or contractors) tends to confuse things. For example, you say "... IANA then makes the actual allocations ...". In actuality (as you note later on), ICANN, acting as the current IANA "protocol parameters function" operator makes the allocation.
Glad you raised this.
Given the range of things that ICANN does and given the controversy some
of that engenders and given that the IANA activities really are
something that the IETF, itself, contracts to have done, I think it
/better/ to refer to IANA as a discrete activity.
Labeling that set of functions as its own, IETF-assigned administrative
identity can help to separate it from other other Internet
administrative functions.
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net