I thought number allocation was the business of the RIRs, and ICANN was names?
IANA, which is operated by ICANN, hands out large chunks of IP addresses to the RIRs, which then handle the suballocation to organizations in their respective regions. All of the IPv4 space has been delegated to the RIRs, so it's hard to imagine how ICANN could influence future IPv4 allocation even if they unwisely attempted to do so. For IPv6, the chunks are so large that it'll be years before the RIRs use up the chunks they already have. They're currently using allocations they got from IANA in 2006. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly