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Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:48:02 -0700


On Jul 24, 2010, at 11:40 PM, David Conrad wrote:

On Jul 25, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
The logical candidate to operate option 1 was the IANA, and the RIRs were having none of that. (For bonus points, 
explain how the RIRs continue to exist if everyone can have all of the guaranteed-globally-unique IPv6 space they 
wanted for free.)
For bonus points, explain how the numbers side of IANA pays for anything when the RIRs stop funding it?

None of the "sides of IANA" pay for anything.  There is no binding between what parties pay and what the ICANN staff 
who perform the IANA function do.  In fact, those staff do not have any knowledge of whether any organization has 
paid anything (other than what they  might hear incidentally).

The (zero dollar) IANA functions contract has 3 major functions, of which allocating blocks of addresses to the RIRs 
(and at the direction of the IETF) is one.  Failure to perform that function would be interpreted as breach of 
contract, regardless of whether the RIRs pay anything to ICANN or not.

Regards,
-drc

The point was more that if the RIRs go away, IANA loses significant funding.

Owen



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