Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
It would appear a clarification is necesssary:
The @Home allocation was done outside of normal registry procedures by the IANA directly. InterNIC should not be held responsible for that case. Which confirms that the rules are not well established nor consistently applied.
Any very large or unusual request must go outside normal registry procedures (e.g., slow start). @Home is such a case. They made their case directly to the IANA as InterNIC is not authorized to allocate very large or unusual requests directly. The IANA authorized the allocation based on the merits of the request (whatever they might be). None of the registries can allocate very large or unusual requests directly. This rule is quite well established and consistently applied. Regards, -drc
Just a small quibble David: when you say "the IANA" decided, it gives the impression that an august group of people like the IESG took action. In reality "the IANA" is but a SINGLE person - John Postel. If some people are upset I suspect it might be because the power to make such a decision is vested in the hands of ONE person rather than in a group. ********************************************************************* 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 ********************************************************************* On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, David R. Conrad wrote:
It would appear a clarification is necesssary:
The @Home allocation was done outside of normal registry procedures by the IANA directly. InterNIC should not be held responsible for that case. Which confirms that the rules are not well established nor consistently applied.
Any very large or unusual request must go outside normal registry procedures (e.g., slow start). @Home is such a case. They made their case directly to the IANA as InterNIC is not authorized to allocate very large or unusual requests directly. The IANA authorized the allocation based on the merits of the request (whatever they might be). None of the registries can allocate very large or unusual requests directly. This rule is quite well established and consistently applied.
Regards, -drc
Gordon:
Just a small quibble David: when you say "the IANA" decided, it gives the impression that an august group of people like the IESG took action.
I certainly would not intend to, nor do I think I did, give the impression that a group like the IESG took action. One of the advantages (and arguable disadvantages) of the current registry system is a lack of bureaucratic overhead of the type you thought I was implying.
In reality "the IANA" is but a SINGLE person - John Postel.
Actually, it is 2 people, Jon Postel and Joyce Reynolds. However, note that the IANA is responsible to the IAB in the great Internet organzation chart in the sky.
If some people are upset I suspect it might be because the power to make such a decision is vested in the hands of ONE person rather than in a group.
My impression is that people are concerned that an organization with no track record and no customers (at this time) was able to obtain a highly coveted large block of space. Further, some people are concerned with the allocation of a subnet of a class A where an equivalently sized block in the class C space would have seemed appropriate. My suggestion to people who feel this way would be to publish an RFC or BCP offering advice to the IANA (as was done with RFC 1814) describing the policies they would like implemented. Regards, -drc
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 *********************************************************************
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