Hello:
These following will be my questions at next Singapore meeting:
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(1) The charter of IAB <http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1601.txt>
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2. The Role of the IAB:
The IAB was chartered as a component of the Internet
Society in June of 1992. Its responsibilities under this
charter include:
[...]
(d) RFC Series and IANA
The IAB is responsible for editorial management and
publication of the Request for Comments (RFC) document
series, and for administration of the various Internet
assigned numbers.
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>>>> Regardless on who was paying IANA; was/isn't it an IAB
activity? Please correct me if I am wrong.
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(2) http://www.iana.org/faqs.html
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2. Why is this necessary?
In the past, IANA's activity was supported by the United
States government. [...]
3. Who gives you the authority to do this?
The United States government, as a custodian of the work
started by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and
now supported by National Science Foundation funding that
created the Internet and IANA, is providing guidelines for
an organization to carry out this work. The Internet community
is continuing to provide the authority.
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>>>> In my understanding, the USG has provided the "funds",
however, the authority came from the "Internet Community"
(whatever that is). Please correct me if I am wrong or
not so correct!
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(3) WhiteAlbum
<http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/6_5_98dns.htm>
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:Background:
[...]
U.S. Role in DNS Development:
[...]
After Dr. Postel moved from UCLA to the Information Sciences
Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC),
he continued to maintain the list of assigned Internet numbers
and names under contracts with DARPA. SRI International
continued to publish the lists. As the lists grew, DARPA
permitted Dr. Postel to delegate additional administrative
aspects of the list maintenance to SRI, under continuing
technical oversight. Dr. Postel, under the DARPA contracts,
also published a list of technical parameters that had been
assigned for use by protocol developers. Eventually these
functions collectively became known as the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority (IANA).
[...]
4) Protocol Assignment.
The Internet protocol suite, as defined by the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF), contains many technical
parameters, including protocol numbers, port numbers,
autonomous system numbers, management information base
object identifiers and others. The common use of these
protocols by the Internet community requires that the
particular values used in these fields be assigned uniquely.
Currently, IANA, under contract with DARPA, makes these
assignments and maintains a registry of the assigned values.
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>>>> The "DARPA contract" rings a bell, however until now,
it is not clear about what exactly the contract was.
Is it possible to disclose those contracts for reducing
equivocality?
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(4) ICANN <http://www.icann.org/>
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) is the new non-profit corporation that was formed to
take over responsibility for the IP address space allocation,
protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management,
and root server system management functions now performed
under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities.
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>>>> As a consensus is not usually based on a top-down authority
model, I can not understand on how ICANN can "take control"
over a consensus. In this current situation, only Microsoft
(the IETF's T-Shirt sponsor) is capable to do that (control)
by redirecting the root server factory set table of their O/S
to wherever they want to. Moreover, what if the IETF (whatever
that is) ain't delegate the IPv6 address space to ICANN? Please
correct me if I am wrong.
best regards,
-- Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim --- http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/6825 --- - Join us now and share the software;You'll be free, hackers (rms6) - Hoarders may get piles of money, but cannot help their neighbors-
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