----- Original Message ----- From: "Boyan Krosnov" <bkrosnov@lirex.bg> Reading the draft below it seems that ICANN perporms some of the functions of IANA, including the administration of the arpa TLD.... http://www.ngi.org/enum/pub/draft-iab-arpa-00.txt Do you then conclude that RIPE should pay ICANN directly ? http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space Does it matter who RIPE pays the $168,000,000 per /8 per year to ? ======