Re: Another Done Deal

[Joe Shea <joeshea@netcom.com>]

  	ARPA, I presume, is the Defense Advanced Research Projects 
  Agency?  I thought they were out of the whole thing.  Or is that a 
  generic name for the kinds of tasks involved?
  
  Best,
  
  Joe Shea
  Editor-in-Chief
  The American Reporter
  joeshea@netcom.com
  http://www.newshare.com:9999
  
  
  On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Jim Fleming wrote:
  
  > 
  > Here is the latest monopoly being launched by the NSF
  > and the U.S. Government...of course, this one is probably
  > supported by the IAHC supporters. I suppose all monopolies
  > are not bad, just the ones they do not support.
  > 
  > @@@ http://rs.internic.net/nsf/agreement/amendment7.html
  > 
  > "12/10/97
  > Amendment 7 to the NSF Cooperative Agreement is now available. This 
  > Amendment will transfer responsibility for the IP Number assignment, 
  > Autonomous System Number assignment, and IN-ADDR.ARPA tasks to
  > the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN).  ARIN will begin 
  > operations on December 22, 1997. All IP requests received by the InterNIC 
  > that are not processed prior to the close of business on Friday, December 
  > 19, will be forwarded from the InterNIC to ARIN. The InterNIC will make 
  > every attempt to complete all requests received by this date.
  > 
  > @@@ http://rs.internic.net/nsf/agreement/amendment7.html
  > 
  > "IN-ADDR.ARPA tasks to ARIN."
  > 
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  > 
  > And ARIN was not supposed to have anything to do with
  > domain names....is IN-ADDR.ARPA a domain name ???
  > 
  > 
  > Jim Fleming
  > Unir Corporation
  > IBC, Tortola, BVI
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