Sorry david you misunderstood what i wanted to get across. when you say "the IANA" decided, it gives the impression that an august group of people like the IESG took action. I said this not to imply that you or any one else had implicated IESG in the decision. What i was thinking of was the new comer who might remember the IAB and IESG as being made up of GROUPS of people and assume the IANA was ALSO a GROUP. Now I am sure you know more about this than I and I do not know what roles Joyce plays. However other people who also know more than I have said that John *IS* the IANA. Also please understand that I am implying no personal criticism of john in my statements. ********************************************************************* Gordon Cook, Editor & Publisher Subscriptions: Individ-ascii $85 The COOK Report on Internet Individ. hard copy $150 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA Small Corp & Gov't $200 (609) 882-2572 Corporate $350 Internet: cook@cookreport.com Corporate Site Lic. $650 http://pobox.com/cook/ for new COOK Report Glossary of Internet terms *********************************************************************