[YA] Fwd: Class B Purchase

Mon Oct 5 21:27:00 UTC 1998

|  > One might notice that these words were written in an RFC.  Not in a law
|  > book.
|  
|  Then so does ARIN's and the IANA's ability to control and delegate addresses.
|
|  You can't have it both ways.  Either the IETF process is valid, in which
|  case the precedents it sets are also valid, or it is not, in which case 
|  none of the existing "organizations" have any validity at all, INCLUDING
|  THOSE POSTULATED UNDER THE WHITE PAPER AND THE IANA2 DOCUMENTS.
|  
|  Which would you prefer?

Not all RFC's are created equal.  RFC 2008 is a BCP.  Not everything that
the IETF process produces is ex-cathedra.  In particular, RFC 2008 is a
technical recommendation.  Any authority that it may have comes from the
fact that it has been adopoted by some organizations as their policy.

You should distinguish between their authority to set their own policies
and the actual document that those policies are based on.

Tony