<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 9, 2011, at 5:02 AM, McTim wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Andrew Alston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aa@tenet.ac.za">aa@tenet.ac.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I would be opposed to any policy that placed any restrictions on true legacy space (that space that was assigned prior to the existence of RIR’s).</span></p><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I am not at all convinced that such a policy could actually be legally enforced anyway, since the space was allocated outside of the auspicious of the RIR structures</span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Wasa it? Aren't the RIRs "agents" or "designees" of IANA who gavve the allocated originally? </div><div><br></div></div></blockquote>Most of the legacy space in Africa was probably originally delegated by InterNIC, either</div><div>the SRI InterNIC, or, the Network Solutions InterNIC, both of which were administered</div><div>under a contract to the NSF related to, but, not directly subordinate to the IANA contract</div><div>which was held by Jon Postel of University of Southern California Information Sciences</div><div>Institute and later ICANN.</div><div><br></div><div>At the time, InterNIC was also responsible for registrations in the COM, ORG, NET, and</div><div>EDU gTLDs. I believe the DDN NIC handled .MIL and I am not sure who handled .INT.</div><div>I believe the remaining TLDs were the ccTLDs.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Weren't legacy recipients supposed to return the space if they no longer had a need for it? I think your org set a precedent on this by returning most of your legacy space to the RIR, no?</div>
<div><br></div></div></blockquote>1. Yes. 2. I have no idea on Andrew's org. or precedents they set, so, I'll leave that</div><div>to Andrew.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div></body></html>