Re: The American Registry for Internet Numbers has just been approved

Santanu Bhattacharya <santanu@daistech.com> Tue, 24 June 1997 19:32 UTC

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As far I know this is not new to the world! We have already APNIC (Asia 
Pacific NIC http://www.apnic.net)running for quite some time. To reduce the 
load on InterNIC and better management this is required. (Though it has its own 
political effect too!) Are we all discussing that effect on this mailing 
list of IETF!!

Santanu

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> "Stewart, Dave" writes:
> > Color me ignorant, but how is this different that the "alternic" that
> > has been groaned about in the past?
> 
> ARIN is the successor of the current InterNIC IP address registry for
> North America. It has been set up with IANA approval.
> 
> It has nothing to do with the DNS at all, actually.
> 
> 
> Perry
>