[governance] IANA contract to be opened for competitive bidding on November 4

[Roland Perry]

In message <20111024140303.074D015C211 at quill.bollow.ch>, at 16:03:02 on 
Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> writes
>
>RFC 2850 says the following:
>
>   The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) administers various
>   protocol parameters used by IETF protocols, delegating this
>   administration as appropriate. The IAB must approve the appointment
>   of an organization to act as IANA on behalf of the IETF. The IANA
>   takes technical direction on IETF protocols from the IESG.
>
>I understand this as an indication that eleven years ago when this was
>written, IANA was seen as "acting on behalf of the IETF", not as
>acting on behalf of the USG.

That's only one of IANA's three functions.

But suggestions that IANA's functions be separated have always been 
controversial.

-- 
Roland Perry
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