Re: [NA-Discuss] Foreign Policy and the Internet

And then, after all that hemming and hawing, the IANA contract was eventually awarded to.... the current contractor.

It would have been pretty amazing if they awarded it to anyone else, given the extremely specialized knowledge involved. I agree that it's really hard to tell what the point of the exercise was. There's been a long running quiet discussion about separating the DNS zone part of IANA from the much less political ports and parameters part. I can't tell whether this was part of the exercise either. R's, John