Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course

[owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)]

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>> For bonus points, explain how the numbers side of IANA pays for anything when the RIRs stop funding it?
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> David already answered more eloquently than I could, so I'll simply add that what he said applied when I was there as well. The IANA is, and always has been a cost center. You don't want to live in an IANA fee-for-service world.
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My point was that as a cost center, IANA depends on funding from other sources.  The RIRs are a major source of that funding.

Owen