[ih] Very early days of the IANA

[Jorge Amodio]

> At some point, after August 1996 but probably before 1998, the
> http://www.isi.edu/iana web page (this was before HTTP V1.1 eliminated the
> need for one IP per website) stated that 'the IANA is chartered by the
> Internet Society'.
>
> Does anyone have any further information on this?

As far as I remember that was discussed before and during the first
Inet meeting in Denmark (1991) that led to the creation of ISOC, as a
path to provide some sort of institutional umbrella and legal
protection to IANA, IAB and IETF.

I'll dig into old files to see if I find something.

-J