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Re: Hijacked Domain Names?

A few clarifications of fact:

At 07:21 PM -0800 11/20/96, Bob Allisat wrote:
> .ORG and .NET. Internic funded IANA
> in order to justify and protect it's

	IANA funding does not and has not come from Internic.  If someone
tracks down information to counter this, please show that it is more than a
trivial fraction of the IANA budget.

> monopoly. IANA is now  out of the
> process entirely IAHC is the next
> attempt to preserve monopoly. And

	IANA is not out of the process.  It retains its role.  The IAHC is
a specially-formed effort to pursue a particular topic and IANA named two
of its participants.  IANA has been the registration authority for roughly
20 years, which is rather considerabe precedent.  And if you don't like
that number, try 10 years.  The former refers to Jon Postel's role in
Internet development, filling the void doing a wide range of administrative
functions that no one else offered to do.  The latter is the approximate
start of the formal "IANA" function.  Either way, it's a pretty long
lifeline.

> Recall that no government or inter-
> national body gave Internic the right
> to any of the TLD's they appear to own.

	The Internic does not own any tlds, any more than any other
operational unit owns tlds.  They administer them, based on authorization
from IANA (not NSF or any other agency; NSF funded them but did not provide
the formal authority; that came from IANA.)  I should note that
authorization to TLD registries is by no means permanent and reassignment
of authorization to other agencies has been done before, so there's no
reason to believe it can't be done again.

d/


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