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At 10:51 AM 3/15/96 +0900, David R. Conrad wrote: >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. As I seem to recall, the @Home proposal (at least what I saw of it after the fact) was for a potential 50 Million addresses. This definitely puts it out of the range of a registry decision and moved it to IANA. Those of us that were in the middle of the IPng address size debate had predicted a request like this and have not supprise of the outcome. BTW, there are 'rumours' floating around that China wants a couple of A's or so... Robert Moskowitz Chrysler Corporation (810) 758-8212
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