[anti-abuse-wg] Some Facts for the Record

 >By the way, as for facts, you keep asserting that IANA is a separate 
legal entity and that the
 >US Dept. Commerce has a contract with them.  Since it's already been 
pointed out that these
 >assertions are incorrect -- and the language at IANA doesn't support 
your model: <http://www.iana.org/about> >
 >perhaps you'd care to point at the legal documents that prove otherwise.

It was already posted by Mr. Pawlik:

http://www.icann.org/en/general/iana-contract-14aug06.pdf

As you can see IANA is a separate legal entity.  If you read you can see 
that ICANN provides the resources
for the IANA function but the actual legal entity on the contract is 
IANA.  The contract could have been
directly with the legal entity ICANN.  I have asked for an explanation 
as to why this is but I cannot get an
answer from IANA/ICANN or DOC.  I assume it was done to try to isolate 
ICANN from liability but
that is just speculation.

 >I could well be wrong, but I doubt that your strident efforts at 
bullying those who disagree with you
 >is all that productive.

You started with the ad hominem bullying and I just responded in kind. 
  My methods may not help with my
immediate issue but in the long run it is good to ruffle some feathers 
so maybe the next person who has
issues like mine will get more consideration than I got from RIPE NCC.  
I didn't wake up one day and say
I want to join a RIPE list and cause trouble.  I was going fine for 13 
years and now all of a sudden there is a problem
and they cut me off.  This is the kind of reaction that you will get 
when things like that are done.

Thank You