Re: NSI and competition to RIPE and APNIC

[Tom Newell <tomn () internic net>]

> 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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