Re: IANA contract up for bid

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () cadence com>]

> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:19:47 -0500
> From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
> To: "FunSec [[List]]" <funsec () linuxbox org>
> Subject: [funsec] IANA contract up for bid
>
> Via the register: 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/24/iana_contract/
> The US government has taken the extraordinary step of dangling the
> contract for control of the internet above the heads of the world.
>
> In a "Sources Sought Notice" put out by the Department of Commerce
> (DoC) late on Tuesday and only just noticed by the internet community,
> it is asking for "potential respondents" for the contract to run the
> Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
[,,,]
> <snip>
>
> SO does this mean the IANA contract is actually not up for grabs, and
> they are just messing with ICANN?

I went and read the notice (RFI - Request for Information) yesterday (or 
was it the day before?) and noticed that the USG wants companies to tell 
them HOW the IANA/ICANN *should* be run.  And how, if your company was 
selected to run it, how YOU would run these functions.

The RFI goes on to say that it is NOT an RFP (Request for Proposal - 
generally the first step in getting a contract awarded) and that any 
expenses are to be borne by the respondent (which locks out those 
"independent", low operating cost shops I think).

> -JP
>
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