On Mar 26, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller@syr.edu> wrote:
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NSF was the USF agency which issued and provided oversight to the InterNIC award performing these exact same functions (and additional ones related to DNS) in the Internet's early years.
And here is what the General Counsel of the NSF said about this: http://www.internetgovernance.org/2012/09/22/its-official-legacy-ipv4-addres...
Apologies to the RIPE community. Milton is referencing a letter which was followed up by the same person noting that it just his observations and not the US government position as NTIA is authoritative in these matters - <https://www.arin.net/resources/legacy/NSF-Rudolph-ARIN-7NOV2012.pdf> NTIA subsequently issued the USG's Internet Protocol numbering principles, as I noted earlier, including that it recognizes ARIN as the RIR for its region and is supportive of ARIN's policies. Milton hasn't apparently updated his blog based on this withdrawal. The full set of letters involved (with references) may by found at the bottom of this page: <https://www.arin.net/resources/legacy/index.html> FYI, /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN