[members-discuss] Questions about the published Draft Agenda and Supporting Documents

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 12:59:43PM +0000, Kurtis Lindqvist wrote:
> Keep in mind that IANA maintains all technical parameter registries, and assigns all protocol numbers and technical parameters. For reasons of separation they have a standalone budget. One could argue that risk that required this separation are less today, but personally I think that they are perhaps even greater now than then.
> 
> My personal view is that the contribution to IANA / ICANN probably is justified for RIPE NCC and its members. The alternatives might well be cheaper, but perhaps not as palatable.

I do understand the importance of IANA.  But I also see the amount of
numbers that are being maintained, at least for the RIR system, and they
hardly justify a multi-million US$ budget.

But I can accept Lutz' reasoning for the existence of IANA / ICANN.

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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