On Jul 24, 2010, at 11:40 PM, David Conrad wrote: > On Jul 25, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> The logical candidate to operate option 1 was the IANA, and the RIRs were >>> having none of that. (For bonus points, explain how the RIRs continue to >>> exist if everyone can have all of the guaranteed-globally-unique IPv6 space >>> they wanted for free.) >> For bonus points, explain how the numbers side of IANA pays for anything >> when the RIRs stop funding it? > > None of the "sides of IANA" pay for anything. There is no binding between > what parties pay and what the ICANN staff who perform the IANA function do. > In fact, those staff do not have any knowledge of whether any organization > has paid anything (other than what they might hear incidentally). > > The (zero dollar) IANA functions contract has 3 major functions, of which > allocating blocks of addresses to the RIRs (and at the direction of the IETF) > is one. Failure to perform that function would be interpreted as breach of > contract, regardless of whether the RIRs pay anything to ICANN or not. > > Regards, > -drc
The point was more that if the RIRs go away, IANA loses significant funding. Owen
