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IP: A note from Vint Cerf Re: IAB Last Call on new IANA Statement
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:01:56 -0700
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 05:18:35 -0400 From: "vinton g. cerf" <vcerf () MCI NET> Subject: Re: IAB Last Call on new IANA Statement X-Sender: vcerf () alpha1 reston mci net To: Robert Moskowitz <rgm-ietf () htt-consult com>, Kent Crispin <kent () songbird com>, IETF <ietf () ietf org> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Folks, forgive me for adding to your email burden but I wanted to react to the important issue raised below. First, it is pretty critical that there be some process by which serious malfunctions in any of the organizations critical to Internet operation can be remedied. If IANA, or RIPE NCC or APNIC or ARIN suddenly goes crazy, there has to be some way for the Internet Community (users, vendors, service providers and engineers) to respond. That observation probably goes double for domain names. Whether that is through a form of oversight or something else is, of course, what a great deal of the debate on newIANA has been about. Also, along these lines, I think it is pretty important to read any proposal for a re-engineered IANA in the context of what happens if the operators of the organization malfunction. What mechanisms are proposed to deal with that and are you persuaded that they can be made to work? That's important because we can't assume we will always have someone as rational as Jon Postel steering the process. The same concerns should apply to other critical elements of the Internet administrative universe. Protecting Internet from abusive practices is an important part of developing new or re-engineered organizations. I think the proposals Jon has put on the table are workable, but you need to look at them with the same care that went into the POISED effort, for instance. As painful at that may have been, I think it resulted in a set of procedures that were not dependent on any one individual being infallible. Vint Cerf At 05:09 PM 8/27/98 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
At 01:53 PM 8/27/98 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:The nIANA is not a world government. The universe of nIANA, as defined in the IANA draft, is restricted to oversight of three organizations, which are in turn concerned with Internet names, numbers, and protocols, and the policies associated with them. Since the universe of nIANA is centered on these three entities, these three entities have distinguished representation.careful there. nIANA does not have oversight of the three organizations. Jon made that clear. Rather these organizations give nIANA work, in a sense. This is particularly true of the Protocols org, that create protocols that have names and numbers that nIANA manages. the protocol org(s) also advise the nIANA on protocol issues related to its naming and addressing roles.
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