At 07:33 PM 2/3/2003 -0800, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
--On 3. februar 2003 15:40 -0500 Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> wrote:
Not sure how much of "our" part of IANA is involved.
All of it.
And the RIRs' IANA too.
sigh
I had heard as much late last year (that Commerce did not accept the
exchange of letters between he IETF and ICANN as carrying any weight and
that they (Commerce) believed that the protocol parameter assignment function
for IETF Internet protocols was a function that was under the terms of a
contract
issued by the US Department of Commerce and that they (Commerce)
had never relinquished this role and would continue to issue IANA contracts
with this role included.
Frankly I'm not sure its a Hale and Dorr matter as much as one of opening a
direct
dialogue with the contract officer at Commerce and her various masters and
overlords within that agency to at least understand their position and work
out how to proceed from there in terms of the interests of the IETF.