<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hi,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="border-left-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks -- that's very helpful and supports the position that the IETF is not now and never has been IANA. (Which in no way discounts the close relationship that the IETF has with IANA, and
the historical origins of both.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[</span><span style="font-size: 15px;">…]</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></span><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">No one has ever said that IETF “is” the IANA. What has been said is that the IANA is a label for registries based on IETF standards. I strongly suggest that you read RFC 2434 here: </span><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2434" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2434</a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"> for a basic explanation of what IANA is and how it is related to IETF. </span></p></div></div></div></div></span><div><br></div><div>I'd also suggest reading <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-067-en.pdf">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-067-en.pdf</a>, section 2.</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">Next I would suggest that you read RFC 2860, the MoU between ICANN and IETF regarding the IANA functions for protocols, which commits ICANN to </span></p><pre style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">“</span>The IANA will assign and register Internet protocol parameters<o:p></o:p></pre><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">only as directed by the criteria and procedures specified in RFCs…”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 78, 121);">In RFC 2860, the IETF basically dictates to ICANN what the IANA will do to ensure that it is integrated with the IETF standards development process. The IANA
is therefore an extension of IETF’s standards process, it coordinates unique entries in various registries created by the IETF standards. </span></p></div></div></div></div></span><div><br></div><div>If it helps, it might be easier to view IETF as an Standards Development Organization and "the IANA" (initially (in the early '70s) with Jon Postel as the sole "numbers czar" then later, more formalized and having multiple full-time staff) as its secretariat. That is, I believe, how "the IANA" has always functioned and my understanding (which is undoubtedly wrong) was that ICANN was created in order (among other things) to provide a legal entity for the IANA functions.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-drc</div><div><br></div><style><!--
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