Hello, The following banner can be found at the InterNIC FTP site: 220- Please be advised that on March 31, 1998 InterNIC will be shutting 220- down permanently and will no longer be in service.The databases that 220- you own will need to be either moved to another location or put out 220- of service. 220- 220- We apologize for this event but it will be the end of the InterNIC 220- Cooperative Agreement that was funded by the National Science 220- Foundation and AT&T. I knew the fact that NSI lost its contract with the NSF from earlier. Any comments on impacts of this shutdown on the root servers, in-addr.arpa zone, nTLDs and gTLDs? Regards, Beri .-------. | --+-- | Berislav Todorovic, B.Sc.E.E. | E-mail: beri@ubbg.etf.bg.ac.yu | /|\ UBBG System administrator | |-(-+-)-| School of Electrical Engineering | Phone: (+381-11) 3221-419 | \|/ Bulevar Revolucije 73 | 3370-106 | --+-- | 11000 Belgrade SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA | Fax: (+381-11) 3248-681 `-------' --------------------------------------------------------------------
Berislav Todorovic <BERI@etf.bg.ac.yu> writes:
.... Any comments on impacts of this shutdown on the root servers, in-addr.arpa zone, nTLDs and gTLDs?
After intensive discussions around the IETF meeting last week I am confident that there will be no instability in the services that are provided by the InterNIC at present. The address space related services are being transferred to ARIN (see http://www.arin.net/). This includes the relevant protions of the in-addr.arpa zone. There are intensive discussions about setting up a structure for the IANA including the root-server and TLD related services. RIPE and the RIPE NCC are actively taking part in these discussions. Drastic changes to the services are not likely during this process because everyone involved, including the InerNIC and the US government, is interested in a smooth transition. I will report more about these things at the upcoming RIPE meeting. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Kind regards Daniel Karrenberg RIPE NCC Manager
Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
Berislav Todorovic <BERI@etf.bg.ac.yu> writes:
.... Any comments on impacts of this shutdown on the root servers, in-addr.arpa zone, nTLDs and gTLDs?
After intensive discussions around the IETF meeting last week I am confident that there will be no instability in the services that are provided by the InterNIC at present.
The address space related services are being transferred to ARIN (see http://www.arin.net/). This includes the relevant protions of the in-addr.arpa zone.
There are intensive discussions about setting up a structure for the IANA including the root-server and TLD related services. RIPE and the RIPE NCC are actively taking part in these discussions.
Drastic changes to the services are not likely during this process because everyone involved, including the InerNIC and the US government, is interested in a smooth transition.
I will report more about these things at the upcoming RIPE meeting.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards
Daniel Karrenberg RIPE NCC Manager
This is the answer from internic regarding the posting on InterNIC's ftp site. Dec 17, 1997 In a recent posting on its FTP server and on the IETF mailing list AT&T announced: "Please be advised that as of March 31, 1998, InterNIC [Directory and Database Services] will be discontinuing service. If services are provided somewhere else, we will provide pointers." The service[s] to which the announcement refers are the InterNIC Directory and Database Services provided by AT&T under a Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation. The announcement does not, in any way, refer to the InterNIC Domain Name Registration Services provided by Network Solutions. Mattias Segerdahl Senior Network Manager Manager R&D Netsys Technology Group AB
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