Re: PAB nIANA facts

From: Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Date: Wed Jun 10 1998 - 08:51:21 PDT


Bob Helfant writes:
> Don Heath please respond.

Bob, rather than clogging this mailing list -- and I suspect Don isn't
even reading here -- why don't you do this in private mail?

.pm

> I have tried several times to get clarification from Perry regarding his
> remark that ISOC is the umbrella for IANA. When I pressed him to explain
> his statement, he said that I should ask you or Jon Postel. Please explain
> the power that ISOC has over IANA present and IANA of the future so we can
> kill off this thread. Thanks.
>
> Bob Helfant
>
> At 10:36 AM 6/10/98 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >
> >Bob Helfant writes:
> >> I posted this question when you informed me that ISOC was the "umbrella"
> >> for IANA. If there are no connections, or they are so vague that noone on
> >> this list can name them, what did you mean?
> >
> >I gave you an answer. You asked about the new situation, and I
> >indicated that a better source of information than myself would be Don
> >Heath and/or Jon Postel. In other words, the situation right now is
> >fluid, as though that weren't obvious, and it would be better to ask
> >the people involved than to ask me.
> >
> >.pm
> >
> >> Bob Helfant
> >>
> >> At 04:16 PM 6/9/98 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Bob Helfant writes:
> >> >> Would you mind clarifying for me and other inquiring minds what the
> actual
> >> >> (and official) relationship between ISOC and IANA and the new version o
f
> >> >> IANA is or will be. Thank you.
> >> >
> >> >Ask Jon and Don -- don't ask me.
> >> >
> >> >Perry
> >> >
> >



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