ICANN or IANA
Doug Barton
dougb at dougbarton.us
Mon Apr 14 16:47:41 UTC 2008
Edward Lewis wrote:
> At 11:11 +0200 4/7/08, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
>> IANA is just the name for an ICANN activity, it is not a separate
>> body.
>
> Not quite. IANA is a US government contracted function that is
> performed by ICANN. ICANN is trying to be "free" of its tie to the
> US Gov't. IANA exists because the US government pays for it to
> exist.
Unless things have changed dramatically since I was there, the IANA
function is on a "no fee" basis, which means that ICANN receives no
funding from the USG. You can see the most recent IANA contract for
yourself at http://www.icann.org/general/iana-contract-14aug06.pdf.
hth,
Doug
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