[ih] Early History of the Internet

[Dave Crocker]

On 1/9/2024 5:53 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
> > An Internet does not have any central authority.
>
> Is not IANA a central authority?


oh boy.  Do they decide who can connect to the Internet and pass data 
across it?

Yes, there are registration authorities, for various parametric bits -- 
and I've have expected ICANN to be cited more quickly than IANA -- but 
generally, administrative entities like these are quite different from 
operational authorities.

d/

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Dave Crocker
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