Uh, _this_ time I'm copying trustees. On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:47:10PM -0800, Bob Hinden wrote: > > http://www.iana.org > > It says: > > "The global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources is performed as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions.” > Their web page _doesn't_ abbreviate it as "IANA". It says "the IANA functions", and it also says, "As of 1 October 2016, the IANA functions are being provided …". It talks about "IANA functions", not "IANA". I believe that the IETF Trust's legal counsel agrees about this, but I am copying the Trust to confirm. In any case, see restriction 5 under exhibit D of http://trustee.ietf.org/documents/License_Agreement09-21-2016Protocolclean.htm. Since the new document did not exist as of the Effective Date, we should follow those rules. Finally, > If their web page can abbreviate this as “IANA”, then I think we can as well. the problem with trademarks is that normally-sensible things that one can do with language are just now allowed. So one's sense of these things is no guide, only one's lawyer's sense. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx