By the way, as for facts, you keep asserting that IANA is a separate legal entity and that the US Dept. Commerce has a contract with them. Since it's already been pointed out that these assertions are incorrect -- and the language at IANA doesn't support your model: <http://www.iana.org/about> > perhaps you'd care to point at the legal documents that prove otherwise.
It was already posted by Mr. Pawlik: http://www.icann.org/en/general/iana-contract-14aug06.pdf As you can see IANA is a separate legal entity. If you read you can see that ICANN provides the resources for the IANA function but the actual legal entity on the contract is IANA. The contract could have been directly with the legal entity ICANN. I have asked for an explanation as to why this is but I cannot get an answer from IANA/ICANN or DOC. I assume it was done to try to isolate ICANN from liability but that is just speculation.
I could well be wrong, but I doubt that your strident efforts at bullying those who disagree with you is all that productive.
You started with the ad hominem bullying and I just responded in kind. My methods may not help with my immediate issue but in the long run it is good to ruffle some feathers so maybe the next person who has issues like mine will get more consideration than I got from RIPE NCC. I didn't wake up one day and say I want to join a RIPE list and cause trouble. I was going fine for 13 years and now all of a sudden there is a problem and they cut me off. This is the kind of reaction that you will get when things like that are done. Thank You