Re: PAB nIANA facts

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

Bob Helfant writes:
> Don Heath please respond.  

Bob, rather than clogging this mailing list -- and I suspect Don isn't 
even reading here -- why don't you do this in private mail?

.pm

> I have tried several times to get clarification from Perry regarding his
> remark that ISOC is the umbrella for IANA.  When I pressed him to explain
> his statement, he said that I should ask you or Jon Postel.  Please explain
> the power that ISOC has over IANA present and IANA of the future so we can
> kill off this thread.  Thanks.
> 
> Bob Helfant
> 
> At 10:36 AM 6/10/98 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >
> >Bob Helfant writes:
> >> I posted this question when you informed me that ISOC was the "umbrella"
> >> for IANA.  If there are no connections, or they are so vague that noone on
> >> this list can name them, what did you mean?
> >
> >I gave you an answer. You asked about the new situation, and I
> >indicated that a better source of information than myself would be Don 
> >Heath and/or Jon Postel. In other words, the situation right now is
> >fluid, as though that weren't obvious, and it would be better to ask
> >the people involved than to ask me.
> >
> >.pm
> >
> >> Bob Helfant
> >> 
> >> At 04:16 PM 6/9/98 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Bob Helfant writes:
> >> >> Would you mind clarifying for me and other inquiring minds what the
> actual
> >> >> (and official) relationship between ISOC and IANA and the new version o
f
> >> >> IANA is or will be.  Thank you.
> >> >
> >> >Ask Jon and Don -- don't ask me.
> >> >
> >> >Perry
> >> > 
> >