[9257] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI and competition to RIPE and APNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Newell)
Mon May 12 11:05:33 1997
From: Tom Newell <tomn@internic.net>
To: hank@ibm.net.il (Hank Nussbacher)
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 09:44:31 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.96-heb-2.07.970511132226.6781G-100000@rex.ibm.net.il> from "Hank Nussbacher" at May 11, 97 01:28:14 pm
>
> I am not sure if this is the proper forum so if not, please send me to the
> right one. It appears NSI is establishing franchises throughout the world
> and the franchisees get commissions on domains and IP nets handed out.
> What is most interesting is IP net allocations. RIPE handles Europe,
> APNIC handles Asia Pacific and Internic used to handle everything else. It
> would appear that NSI is gearing up to challenge that premise by setting
> up frachisees all over the world to hand out IP blocks. How will that
> affect routing tables? Has IANA stated anywhere that Internic should
> *not* handle areas covered by RIPE and APNIC?
>
> Hank Nussbacher
>
Simply not true.
--Tom
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