Quoted from another thread: However, we believe that there is a fairly general understanding among IAB, ICANN, and US DoC that the IAB could, indeed, transfer the portions of the IANA efforts that relate to IETF work elsewhere if that were necessary or desirable. I like this bold statement very much, and I believe that this is the way that the IAB should go! And, I assume that it was not a humorous intentional. It is still not clear, however, why both IANA and the RFC-Editor have never explicitly acknowledged that they were chartered by the IAB. If the funding of the RFC Editor function is $1,295,517 and it produces 1300 RFCs, the production cost of one RFC will be about $1000. This is equivalent to 10 third world man month. No complain, since this is funded by Uncle Sam's tax payers or its derivative. (Unfortunately, parts of ICANN and regional *NIC registries funds will come from the third world). References: * http://ittf.vlsm.org/ietf/164.txt * http://ittf.vlsm.org/ietf/00/1.txt * http://gtm.vlsm.org/in-i-iana1.html -- - Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim -- VLSM-TJT -- http://rms46.vlsm.org/ - - You have to let me go, I just wanna tell you! - 5IVE INVINCIBLE -
