Becky Burr, the senior internet policy advisor at the National Telecommunications and Information Agency and co-author of the DNS white paper, said that she could envisage a situation whereby the Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) is not necessarily at the center of the new non-profit corporation to run the DNS. IANA seem to have taken it as read that it is. Burr was answering questions at an open meeting of the New York chapter of the Internet Society Monday evening. However, Burr said she thought it very unlikely, that IANA would have no role within the corporation. But clarifying the position set out in the white paper, Burr said the corporation is likely to form around IANA, which is not the same as saying IANA will lead the corporation. She said the internet community probably would not want to lose the expertise of IANA head Jon Postel and his staff at the University Southern California.
