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"the IANA function" has several components. One part is the IP address allocation part, another is figuring out who gets TLD slots (with the particularly troublesome question of who gets to run ccTLDs.) The part that I suspect is most interesting to the IETF is the part of handling the assignment of various protocol numbers.
I have not been able to get a clear feel about how much this costs ICANN to handle. The raw number of hours of labor might be interesting to know, particularly if the IETF were to consider having somebody other than ICANN do the work.
From the IETF point of view I don't see that there has been any problem in assigning the various numbers - we can look at ICANN's status report to NTIA to get a listing of what was done. I have not heard anybody complaining about number clashes.
The more interesting question for the IETF is whether it could get better number services from some other body or perhaps the IETF's own secretariat. However, the IETF is getting a good deal from ICANN - whatever the cost to ICANN, the cost to the IETF for protocol number assignments is zero. And given the IETF's prospective financial distress, ICANN certainly represents a bargain.
As for the NOAA part - I'm sure that there must be some strange bureaucratic reason why it was issued by NOAA rather than NTIA. I wish somebody would explain why a zero-dollar purchase couldn't be handled by NTIA the same way it buys magazine subscriptions.
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How much would it cost?
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