Re: [aso-policy] RIR proposal

["Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" <woeber@cc.univie.ac.at>]

  Mike,
  
  thank you very much for this clarification:

>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.

  Could you please provide me/us with some information about the
  time-lines involved that led to signing that contract? I suppose 
  this contract has already been completely negotiated and has been 
  ready for signing for quite a while, and in particular, since well
  before the establishment of the ASO MoU and the AC? Is that correct?

>  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.

  Is this a strictly bi-lateral agreement, that ICANN and the USG 
  agreed upon?

>  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."

  Ahhh, so this has already been set in stone - although using some 
  sort of fuzzy terminology - what the responsibilties are that ICANN 
  has accepted.

  Still, I don't fully understand what IANA's future role is going to 
  be when ICANN is "the contractor". But that's probably just me...

>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

  Regards,
  Wilfried.
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