On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:14:05AM +0200, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote a message of 49 lines which said:
Btw, is there going to be an LACNIC-alike system for transfering RIPE/ARIN resources to AfriNIC?
AFAIK, all inetnums belonging to Africa in the RIPE-NCC database have already been transferred (I don't know for ARIN): % whois -h whois.ripe.net 217.64.96.0 % This is the RIPE Whois query server #2. % The objects are in RPSL format. % % Rights restricted by copyright. % See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html inetnum: 217.64.96.0 - 217.64.111.255 org: ORG-AFNC1-RIPE netname: AFRINIC-NET-TRANSFERRED-20050223 descr: This network has been transferred to AFRINIC remarks: These IP addresses are assigned in the AFRINIC region. remarks: Authoritative registration information for this network remarks: is available for query and modification in remarks: the AFRINIC whois database: whois.afrinic.net or remarks: web site: http://www.afrinic.net remarks: The routing registry information (route(6) objects) remarks: may be published in any Routing Registry, including remarks: RIPE Whois Database country: EU # country is really somewhere in African Region admin-c: AFRI-RIPE tech-c: AFRI-RIPE status: ALLOCATED PA mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-routes: RIPE-NCC-RPSL-MNT changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 20050223 source: RIPE