USG no longers funds IANA (WAS Re: PAB USG Green Paper ]

J. William Semich (bsemich@users.org)
Tue, 3 Feb 98 09:27:27 EST5EST

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the US DOD cut Jon's funding to
zero several months ago - and the contract between ISI and the USG viz
IANA has also ended. There's no funding "lever" they can use against
IANA and Jon at this point... as I said, though, please correct me if
I'm wrong on this...

Regards,

Bill

In reply to 03 Feb message from perry@piermont.com:

>K S LIM writes:
>> I like to hear this and wish it is true. But doesn't the US Govt.
has
>> control over IANA now?

>I don't believe they have the right to order Jon to do anything he
>doesn't want to do, or to order him to not do something he wishes
>to do. There is no law that says that they can. They can threaten
>his funding, but other sources of funding are available.

>Perry

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