Re: sole-sourceing IANA function to ICANN for next 3 years (fwd)

[Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>]

I was attempting to point out that this is a political situation as distinct
from a legal one - but we knew that already.

  Geoff

At 07:12 AM 2/4/2003 -0500, Leslie Daigle wrote:

> Geoff,
>
> Agreed.  As has been noted to the IAB already (though perhaps
> not the IESG), I, and Harald, are meeting with DoC on Wednesday.  etting 
> input from H&D before then seems like sensible preparations.
>
> Leslie.
>
> Geoff Huston wrote:
> > 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.