[apnic-talk] Re: The Unique APNIC View of the IANA
Jim and all,
Jim Fleming wrote:
> In the following there is no mention of the fact that Jon Postel (aka IANA)
> is a contractor to the U.S. Government. Furthermore, the diagram leads
> people to believe that the IANA is under the IAB and the ISOC. I do not
> believe that the Internet Society, incorporated as an IRS approved non-profit
> company in the United States of America subscribes to this uniqe view.
>
> There is also no recognition that the DNS data bases for IN-ADDR.ARPA
> are stored on the legacy Root Name Servers controlled by the U.S. Government.
> Entries in those servers are part of the key to a successful delegation of
> IPv4 address space. The IANA as a contractor to the U.S. Government has
> been responsible for maintaining those records. This is one more example
> of where the authority is derived for delegations of IPv4 Internet Addresses.
> APNIC does no recognize this fact even to this day.
Yes, Dave Conrad and I exchanged some private post along these lines.
He seemed to indicate the very same thing. I find this denial odd and somewhat
non-factual. Dave Conrad also indicated directly to me that the IANA is not
directly connected by the USG. Now we all know that this is not true.
>
>
> Jim Fleming
>
> @@@@ ftp://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/archive/apnic-012.txt
>
> 2.1 Where does APNIC derive its authority?
>
> In October of 1992, the Internet Engineering and Planning Group
> (IEPG) released an RFC (RFC 1366) which described the partitioning of
> the IP address space to better support the rapidly growing Internet. Of
> those partitions, one was set aside for the Asia and Pacific Rim
>
> D. Conrad [Page 2]
>
> APNIC-012.0 February, 1995
>
> regions. APNIC was orginially established as a pilot project under the
> Asia Pacific Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Net-
> works (APCCIRN) and the Asia Pacific Engineering and Planning Group
> (APEPG) to administer the address space set aside by RFC 1366. The
> APCCIRN/APEPG, later renamed to the Asia Pacific Networking Group
> (APNG), was orginally established in Jan, 1992 to help coordinate
> research and education networks in conjunction with similar groups in
> North America and Europe. Thus, at that time, APNIC could be said to
> have derived authority from the APCCIRN/APEPG (APNG).
>
> However, after the termination of the APNIC pilot project, APNIC
> continued as an interrim project (primarily due to the lack of a stable
> funding source). Unfortunately, the APNG, being an informal group with
> no legal authority or claim to represent the entire AP region could not
> provide APNIC with a legal umbrella in the event of legal action regard-
> ing APNIC's operation. As such, it was felt by the members of the APNIC
> consultative committee that APNIC's authority should be derived from the
> Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), the overall owner of all IP
> infrastructure resources. While the IANA could not provide any finan-
> cial authority, the IANA is recognized as the root of the Internet
> address allocation tree, thus the policies defined by the IANA could
> provide a minimum of legal support.
>
> 2.2 How is APNIC regulated?
>
> APNIC, being under the IANA is required to adhere to the policies
> defined by the IANA, the Internet Architecture Board, and the Internet
> Society. Hierarchically, the chain of authority for all Internet regis-
> tries can be described as follows:
>
> Asia Pacific Registry (APNIC)
> /
> Internet Society -- IAB -- IANA - European Registry (RIPE-NCC)
> \
> North American Registry (InterNIC)
>
> All policies under which APNIC operate are either created or
> approved by the IANA or the IAB. These policies, in turn, are derived
> from operational requirements of Internet service providers or through
> rough consensus in the IETF. At any time, the IANA can overturn a deci-
> sion by APNIC (or any of the registries) as provided for in RFC 1366 and
> its successor RFC 1466.
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> -
> Jim Fleming
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>
regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
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Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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