Authority over IANA & IP #s was Re: 206.82.160.0/22
Hans-Werner Braun
hwb at upeksa.sdsc.edu
Sat Sep 23 06:09:42 UTC 1995
>Sorry to disagree with you Donald but i have been quite explicitly told
>that if IANA is under the authority of anyone it is under the authority
>of NOT DoD NOR NSF but rather the **Advanced Research Projects Agency**
I assume by some approximation ARPA is to DoD what NCRI is to NSF.
Part of a specific agency. NCRI is home of the NSFNET program. ARPA is
not an independent agency. TCP/IP came clearly out of ARPA, though.
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