Well I am pleased to see this from Hans Werner too -- especiAlly the lines of historical authority ..... he said: formally I guess one would claim that the Internet address space is the personal property of the IANA instrument of the United States Department of Defense, if that is what you like. I would prefer to think that the Internet evolved so much over the last ten years or so into the public realm, that the address and naming spaces have become public property. Instead of bitching about the InterNIC, NSF, ARPA, IANA, whoever, you guys should thank them for how far they got things driven, and whet they fostered and allowed to transition to the international private sector. [end of Hans Werner quote] Cook speaking: Are we hearing then that **ARPA has given up any and all of its authority over IANA**? That DOD no longer claims to own IP numbers? Hans Werner, I'd prefer for you to be precisely correct in your assertion about the public property nature of IANA, IP numbers etc. I'd love to thank Arpa for giving freedom to IANA and DOD for doing the same to IP numbers. But I have not seen any evidence that they have indeed done this. If they have perhaps the relevant people at ARPA and DOD would come out and confirm just exactly what they consider their current authority over IANA and IP numbers to be? ******************************************************************** Gordon Cook, Editor & Publisher Subscript.: Individ-ascii $85 The COOK Report on Internet Non Profit. $150 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 Small Corp & Gov't $200 (609) 882-2572 Corporate $350 Internet: cook@cookreport.com Corporate. Site Lic $650 http://www.netaxs.com/~cook <- Subscription Info & COOK Report Index ******************************************************************** On Fri, 22 Sep 1995 Eric.M.Aupperle@um.cc.umich.edu wrote:
Hans-Werner, I'm pleased to see you still tell it like it is. :-) Hope all is well with you and your family. Eric