[IFWP] Re: fyi - an exchange of mail with ICANN

[Karl Auerbach]

> >What is bothering me is the question of who has the ultimate authority to
> >say "no" to a standards body (the IETF being one) that wants a number for
> >a standard protocol?
> 
> ICANN's belief, as I understand it, is that they would be responsible
> (mostly likely by approving a procedure from the PSO) to make sure that
> there is a procedure for resolving such difficulties.

I find that to be a perfectly acceptable way of dealing with the question
in the, hopefully, unlikely even it should even arise.

                --karl--