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Whither .ARPA?

by Bret Fausett at 12:33PM (PST) on November 21, 2005 | Permanent Link | Digg This

From the Proposed ICANN-Verisign Root Server Management Transition Agreement: "ICANN and VeriSign agree that they shall:... (c) Work together to establish a timetable for the completion of the transition to ICANN of the coordination and management of the ARPA TLD...in particular to enable ICANN to edit, sign and publish the...ARPA zone[] commencing in 2005 and completing by 2006."

Bill Manning, former head of the IANA and (see comment below) one of the operators of the B Root, posting to the ICANN Comment Forum: "A final point is the hijacking of the .ARPA domain from the IAB. It is notclear to me which party incalculated this component into the agreements (I have my ideas) but theft of the management of this domain without the approval of the IAB and the US DoC is ... theft."

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Re: Whither .ARPA?

by dc396 on Mon 21 Nov 2005 07:37 PM PST | Profile | Permanent Link

Bill Manning was never head of IANA.

Re: Whither .ARPA?

by Bret Fausett on Mon 21 Nov 2005 09:04 PM PST | Profile | Permanent Link

You're right. My mistake. Thanks for the note. -- Bret

Re: Whither .ARPA?

by EPo on Tue 22 Nov 2005 08:09 AM PST | Profile | Permanent Link

Bill's URL aka http://forum.icann.org/lists/settlement-comments/msg00049.html aka "posting to the ICANN Comment Forum" does not work.

Re: Whither .ARPA?

by EPo on Tue 22 Nov 2005 08:19 AM PST | Profile | Permanent Link

Re: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-21nov05.htm

Bret, there is no way to comment anything from ICANN and on ICANN's website. ICANN is just stating ex caetedra, and not willing to read or listen anymore. Sorry for using your blog to comment.

"Q4.3 Under the previous .COM agreement, VeriSign agreed to expend US$200,000,000 on certain research, development, and infrastructure improvements. How did they invest it and why does the new agreement contain no similar investment requirement? "

The answer is just a plein "language de bois". I have been there, and my fried Peter de Blanc as well. The US$200 million deal for R&D had have to provide free software and tools for universal whois for all TLDs, and especially ccTLDs. It was not just VeriSign's funds to be spent anyway.