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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: [email protected] 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 >
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