Re: [Ianaplan] control and negotiation (was Re: draft-ietf-ianaplan-icg-response-02 working group last call)

[John Curran <[e-mail]>]

On Nov 9, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Bernard Aboba <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> [BA] A good portion of the complexity here is we are talking about a domain name and trademark that is relevant to multiple communities.

Quite correct - the IANA mark and domain appears relevant to the IETF community,
due to the thousand or so protocol parameter registries published at that site and 
use of the name in many processes; to the Internet number community due to the 
publication of delegated number registries per RFC7020 and RFC7249; and to the 
DNS community due to their use with respect to administration of one particular 
protocol registry, i.e. the DNS root zone.

Personally, I would think it absurd for the IETF to abandon use of the term IANA
simply to avoid discussing arrangements for sharing its use, but then again, in 
the end it is the IETF community's call to make, as interpreted by the leadership.

/John

Disclaimer: my views alone.