ARIN has been working along with APNIC, LACNIC and RIPE NCC to provide number resource statistics in a unified format and location. The following changes will be made to the existing statistics reporting: - Addition of IPv6 allocations - Report generated daily - Summary lines are included - Reports are signed with GPG key - MD5 hash is provided for verification - Minor changes in format We understand that many researchers have scripts that pull these reports on a regular basis and/or perform analysis based on the current format. To facilitate the change and acceptance of the new format, ARIN will run the old and new format from now until January 5, 2004. We have also included a README file in the directory defining the new format. During this time period the location of the stats will be: Current format: ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/stats/arin/latest New format: ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/stats/arin/new/delegated-arin-latest On and after January 5, 2004, the only set of stats will be located at: ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/stats/arin/latest Comments concerning the publicly released statistics can be addressed on the ARIN DBWG mailing list. A mailing list description and subscription information can be found: http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/index.html Ginny Listman Director of Engineering ARIN