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Re: Registered Namespace prefixes

• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Registered Namespace prefixes
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:59:24 -0500
• In-reply-to: <200302282022.PAA14524@m...>

Thanks for the clarification.  It's clearly time to give up on IANA if
it's merely part of the ICANN catastrophe.  That doesn't mean giving up
on registration more generally, however - it means giving up on
registration until such time as an accountable registrar comes into
existence.  Perhaps ICANN's sheer corruption will lead to such a thing
eventually.

jcowan@r... (John Cowan) writes:
>Simon St.Laurent scripsit:
>
>> It's not clear that the "IANA function" in general has been
>> contracted to ICANN - the message appears to be only about country
>> codes.  I'd certainly like clarification on the status of the IANA
>> generally, though.
>
>Thus spake RFC 3160, the Tao of the IETF (2001 but still current):
>
>#   The core registrar for the IETF's activities is the IANA.  Many
>#   Internet protocols require that someone keep track of protocol
items
>#   that were added after the protocol came out.  Typical examples of 
>the
>#   kinds of registries needed are for TCP port numbers and MIME types.
>#   The IAB has designated the IANA organization to perform these
tasks,
>#   and the IANA's activities are financially supported by ICANN, the
>#   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
>
>Who pays the piper calls the tune, and the Commerce Department is
>simply reaffirming the status quo.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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