Re: [ga] NTIA "Request for Information" on the IANA Functions

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl and all former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

Agreed Karl.

I also cannot see why the IETF with all it's resources from the ASO's
escalating the cost/price of Ip allocations by such huge amounts cannot
finance it's own clerical needs...

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Danny Younger wrote:
>
> > re:  "Good or bad, ICANN is the only US acceptable
> > solution for the IANA"
>
> One question that I have not seen asked is this:
>
> Why should the US be paying, or even contracting for, what are largely
> clerical services in support of the IETF?
>
> The IETF is but one of several bodies that create standards upon which the
> internet operates.  If we count noses we will find more packets bearing
> IEEE defined headers than IETF ones.  And there's the W3C and even the
> ITU (we are still using many pieces of the old OSI work.)
>
> Yet all of these other bodies pay for their own secretarial services.
>
> Either *all* of these should get the same government endowed benefits as
> received by the IETF or *none* of them should.
>
> ccTLD delegation should not be blended into the protocol parameter job.
>
> ccTLD delegation is an issue separate and apart from protocol parameters
> and needs to be housed in a very tiny, very constrained, tightly focused,
> and politically insulated body that does only that job and nothing else.
>
>                 --karl--

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