Phil, Thanks for writing this up. To catch up with today's speculation -- what will happen if ... The IANA Function head count and resources currently are well within the resources available to the NTIA, so it is not impossible that in the event of contract expiry the NTIA can end outsourcing to private contractors, or simply exercise another of its remaining extension options. My recollection of the previous transition arising from a competitive procurement -- from SRI to the ancestor of NetSol -- was that post-transition we (SRI) provided significant assistance for a period of a year to the new contractor (after all, this was "rocket science", then). I don't recall if SRI billed the USG for this assistance, but given the scope of SRI's contracts with the USG, it would have been silly not to have made the transition successful, even at a minor unrecovered cost to the Institute. What concerns me (and I don't expect this is a shared concern) the most in the "falling off the end of the contract period" scenario is the possibility of the USG abandoning property to the incumbent contractor, and third-parties, from tax crusaders to market monopolists taking this -- an improper disposal of government property -- to the courts. Eric Brunner-Williams Eugene, Oregon On 12/16/15 11:02 AM, Phil Corwin wrote:
FYI, just blogged on this...
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20151216_fy16_approp_act_extends_iana_transiti...
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