[governance] news of new IANA staff

[Patrick Vande Walle]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

>On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 08:02:09PM +0900,
> Adam Peake (ajp at glocom.ac.jp) <apeake at gmail.com> wrote 
> a message of 23 lines which said:
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>>ICANN's very fortunate to get them, they'll do much to improve
>>IANA/ICANN's credibility with the tech community & DNS industry.
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>Certainly not. ICANN staff has always be technically competent (and
>ICANN's job does not involve complicated stuff). But the real problem
>is political. No recruitment of experts will help.
>  
>
On a related note, Karl Auberach
(http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000195.html) suggests that the
IANA function is really a job for the IETF and not for ICANN. Is there
any ground for that assertion, short of the fact that  the IANA was
(sort of) part of the IETF in the past ?

Patrick Vande Walle


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