On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Bill Lovell wrote:
> >A small amount of thought might persuade you that this process is already
['this process' = moving Internet core resources away from ICANN]
> >well under way. The root servers remain with NSI. The root zone is
> >frozen. The RIRs, the regional IP address space registries, are thinking
> >things over. RFC editing has been moved away from IANA. The IETF isn't
> >terribly keen on the PSO.
> > ...
>
> Uh, NSI, IP, IANA , and (with the above explanation) RIR I can handle. Since
> I don't live in that domain (pun intended), what on earth "RFC editing has
> been moved away from IANA. The IETF isn't terribly keen on the PSO"
> might mean I have no idea.
The IANA used to manage the editing of the RFCs, the documents used for
(among other things) publishing Internet standards. As I understand it,
this job has been transferred by the IAB (more or less the executive
committee of the IETF, the Internet Engineering Task Force) to ISOC.
RFC editing was one of two jobs that IANA did for the IETF. The other is
protocol number assignment. That is still done by the IANA team at ISI
at the University of Southern California.
There are supposed to be three ICANN supporting organizations. One is
the DNSO, the domain names supporting organization. There is no real
organization corresponding to the DNSO at the moment. One group has
simply started using the name, though: see http://www.dnso.org.
The second is the address supporting organization, the ASO. The regional
IP address space registries, the RIRs (RIPE in Europe, ARIN in the Americas,
and APNIC for Asia/Pacific) would like to be the ASO.
The third is the protocols supporting organization, the PSO. The general
assumption has been that this will be the IETF or perhaps the IAB or
perhaps a corporation created by the IAB to be the PSO. While the IAB
is keen on the third approach (maximum power with minimum responsibility),
ICANN and the PSO leave many and perhaps most IETFers cold.
It's hard to talk on these lists without using acronyms ;-)
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Jim Dixon Managing Director
VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316
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