Whither .ARPA?
Whither .ARPA?:
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 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."