Question: One of the roles which will be transitioned from IANA to ICANN is management and assignment of IP space. How do you see the principles of competition, privacy, and openness being extended to IP allocation policies?

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Emerson Tiller, J.D., Ph.D. - posted on 2000-09-29 18:41:09 It may not be obvious at this point how privacy, competition and openness play in IP allocation policies. But when such is clear, every effort should be made to ensure those principles are adhered to. Donald Langenberg - posted on 2000-09-24 11:04:48 A key, crucial question, but one I don't know enough about ICANN operations to answer. Lawrence Lessig - posted on 2000-09-22 05:24:43 ICANN does not manage IP space. It acts, on the recommendation of its supporting organizations, to coordinate technical standards. It must assure that the standards it approves comply with the values that set its charter. But I think it is an important habit to get into: ICANN doesn't create these policies. Lyman Chapin - posted on 2000-09-21 17:34:17 The IP address space (the 32-bit numbers that IP uses to route packets from one host to another) and the domain name space are very different. The principles of competition, privacy, and openness that we are debating with respect to the DNS don't extend naturally to the allocation of the IP address space.