[ga] @Home at ICANN

["Jim Fleming" <jfleming@anet.com>]

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc08/msg03832.html
From: Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>

"ICANN has no contract with Excite @ home and ICANN has nothing in their
charter about stability of organizations it has no contracts with."
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It is interesting to hear that ICANN apparently has nothing to do with
the 24.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name, which Jon Postel gave to @Home
years ago, to allow @Home to be the central coordinator of address
allocations to cable TV companies. The management of that block was
eventually, quietly moved to ARIN, when it became clear that @Home
had billions of dollars in IP address space, allowing it to contract with the
cable TV companies.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
024/8  ARIN - Cable Block   May 01
                (Formerly IANA - Jul 95)


Jim Fleming
http://www.in-addr.info
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