Re: [Internetgovtech] Contracts, what problems we are solving

[Eric Brunner-Williams <[e-mail]>]

On 7/15/14 12:10 PM, John Curran wrote:
> While I seriously doubt such a change would be prudent from an overall Internet
> stability perspective ...

See below.

> So, proceeding ahead with the respective authorities "as given", what exactly
> would be the practical result of the changing the IANA registry operator to
> some other hypothetical party (e.g. "XYZ Corp.")
>
> For the IETF, the "IANA" would be some new team at XYZ, running similar systems
> to the existing IANA team for generating and updating various protocol parameter
> tables on IANA.ORG.

When Pinkus Warburg did the management buyout of the North American 
Numbering Plan Administrator business unit from Lockheed Martin in 1999 
everything remained the same -- office space, management, and hardly 
surprisingly, the NANPA Function, mandated in the Telecommunications Act 
of 1996. (Yes, the L-M office space was dowdy.)

This is "below." The Chicago NPAC did not go down, nor did the overall 
circuit switching system (in +1 only) become unstable in 1999, though 
its ownership changed.

Eric