PAB Where in IANA is Carmen Sandiego?

Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim (rms46@geocities.com)
Thu, 23 Apr 1998 21:15:17 +0800


Hello:

It has been a little bit quit, recently :-). I am just curious, if
there is someone with a better picture of IANA:

- it is said, that IANA is just an Uncle Sam's contract to the
ISI-USC.
- according to IANA's IAHC's gTLD-MoU <http://www.gtld-mou.org>,
IANA is in charge in maintaining the root, assuming that there
exists only one holy root. Therefore, Klingon's and Ferengi's
root are excluded, not mention other stargate/ galaxi's root
and the eDNS.
- according to RFC1601 <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1601.txt>,
somehow, IETF's IAB is in charge to look after IANA, whereas
the holy ISOC is on the top of everything.

Question:
- is this the complete story ?
- why does the Internet DNS Names Review Board (IDNB) -- a
committee that supposed to be established by the IANA -- not
exist ?

<soapbox>
[KING97]
"Those who study the long-term social and economic aspects of
technical innovation will not be surprised if cyberspace is
eventually subsumed under the umbrella of established
infrastructure providers" [...] "Lost of novelty, at least as
understood by the research and engineering community that gave
rise to [the I* community], is a serious blow to [their] culture".
</soapbox>

Regards from Uncle SAMik,

-- 
Rahmat M.Samik-Ibrahim-VLSM-TJT http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/6825
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