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Re: [aso-policy] RIR proposal
At 19:54 +0100 2/10/00, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
Of course you right, but what I wanted to type is
"desription or charter for IANA within the ICANN frame-work."
Again, sorry for potentially having added to the confusion...
Wilfried.
One of the things that has been in progress as part of the transition
activity with the U.S. Government has been the transfer of the IANA
responsibilities which the University of Southern
California/Information Sciences Institute carried out under its
contract with DARPA, to a new contract between the Department of
Commerce and ICANN. That agreement has, after some delay, been
completed and posted on our web site. The intent of both the USG and
ICANN has been to carry on IANA in the same general manner as was
done in the past. The pertinent language in the new contract related
to IP addresses is -
"the contractor [ ie ICANN] shall perform the following IANA functions:
<snip>
- Allocation of IP address blocks. This involves overall
responsibility for the allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 address space. It
includes delegations of IP address blocks to regional registries for
routine allocation, typically through downstream providers, to
Internet end-users within the regions served by those registries. It
also includes reservation and direct allocation of space for special
purposes, such as multicast addressing, cable blocks, addresses for
private networks as described in RFC 1918, and globally specified
applications."
I believe that this language is consistent with the corresponding
portions of the White Paper, the ICANN Bylaws, and the ASO MOU.
If you think we need more dialog on the subject of a charter for IANA
within the ICANN framework, I would be happy to participate.
- Mike
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