I think jays cynicism is well founded..... I am also in the middle of
research that challenges Roelands analysis which i clipped from this reply.
>Hi Stef,
>
>What you describe is a *best* case scenario.
>
>I suspect that this contract is the first transfer
>of assets from the USG to ICANN. Unless this contract
>states otherwise, I doubt that the USG is planning on
>retaining any control over these ISI functions.
>
>If I am correct, ICANN will be placed in a supervisory
>role over all IPv6 assets as described in this recent
>IETF draft:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipngwg-iana-tla-01.txt
>
> The IAB and IESG have authorized the Internet Assigned
> Numbers Authority (IANA) as the appropriate entity to
> have the responsibility for the management of the IPv6
> address space as defined in [ALLOC].
>
>[The IETF appears to be vesting its authority in the IANA.
>NIST appears to be transferring control of the IANA to ICANN.
>In other words, the IETF appears to be vesting its authority in
>*ICANN*. I'm copying this to the IETF for obvious reasons.]
>
>I further suspect that the USG will claim that their
>control over the "A" root is the continuing supervision
>called for in their MoU.
>
>Then again, maybe I'm just being cynical.
>
>Jay.
>
>
[big snip]
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