Re: Future of IANA (and IETF)

[Kent Crispin <kent at songbird.com>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 1998 at 06:32:47PM +0000, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> 
> ! From: Kent Crispin <kent at songbird.com>
> ! Jim's proposal to split the functions of IANA makes a lot of sense.
> ! The solution is to make the root zone authority a non-profit, and
> ! to further require that all TLD registries(*) be run on a cost recovery
> ! basis.
> !
> There appears to be consensus on an explicit "cost recovery" basis for
> this as well.  Would Kent please write a draft charter for this new
> organization, that can be discussed with the IAB?  Concrete proposals
> are usually easier to understand.

I actually did a draft with a very similar theme some months ago for
the IAHC -- I could dust it off and refurbish it. 

I would like to point out that the fundamental authority for such an
entity comes straight out of rfc1591.  The method of delegation of
authority to subdomains described in 1591 grants monopoly control to
the owner of a zone -- that *includes setting policy for any
subdomains of a zone*.  That is, the "owner" of songbird.com (me) has
absolute control over the policy I apply to subdomains of
songbird.com.  Thus, by extension, the owner of the root zone has
authority to set required policy for subdomains of the root, and thus
can certainly set (and enforce, under penalty of removal from the
root) a policy that TLD registries must be run on a cost-recovery
basis, just as the root zone is.  Past that, subdomains of TLDs can
follow whatever policy the TLD registry sets. 

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