Re: [aso-policy] RIR proposal

["Hans Petter Holen" <hph@infostream.no>]

Bill, your comments are definitely interesting,

> The IANA
> has always had the ability to delegate when reasonable requests
> were made. This restricts the ability of the IANA to only act as
> a registar to the RIRs.

Do you have any reference to this ?
Beeing new to this game I have tried to understand the regime of the past,
and the only autoritative document presetnly in place that I have found is
RFC 2050 stating:

   IANA

      The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has authority over all
      number spaces used in the Internet.  This includes Internet
      Address Space. IANA allocates parts of the Internet address space
      to regional IRs according to its established needs.

This text does not limit IANA to only allocate address space to the
regionlal IRs,
but neither does it specify other means of allocating addresses.

Not that I think we should limit this discussion to how it was in the past,
but I would sincerely like to understand the history of this subject.

Do you have concrete suggestions in how to improve the proposal
to accomodate your views ?

Sincerely
Hans Petter Holen


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