27 Jul
1993
27 Jul
'93
12:29 p.m.
Another solution is to divide the numbers that go with the initials in a nic handle among the NICs, so for instance the NCC could give out nic handles that have numbers between 2000 and 4000, InterNIC 0-2000, APNIC 4000-6000 etcetera. This is similar to the address allocation scheme ...
The way the JPNIC currently allocates NIC handles is to append JP to a Internic style handle. Perhaps extending this to the top level NICs (e.g. appending EU for RIPE and AP for Asia/Pacific) might also provide a reasonable way of solving the problem. -drc