NSI and competition to RIPE and APNIC
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
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Randy Bush wrote:
It appears NSI is establishing franchises throughout the world and the franchisees get commissions on domains and IP nets handed out.
And what justification do you have for this rumor? Or is it more black helicopters?
randy
I just spoke to a franchisee who gave me all the information listed. He says NSI has something known as "levels" and he is known as a Level II franchisee (total of 3 levels - with small local ISPs being level III). He did not know who the other franchisees are but did say he saw something in the paper about one being set up in UK and in Switzerland. Hank Nussbacher
It appears NSI is establishing franchises throughout the world and the franchisees get commissions on domains and IP nets handed out. And what justification do you have for this rumor? Or is it more black helicopters? I just spoke to a franchisee who gave me all the information listed. He says NSI has something known as "levels" and he is known as a Level II franchisee (total of 3 levels - with small local ISPs being level III). He did not know who the other franchisees are but did say he saw something in the paper about one being set up in UK and in Switzerland.
To allocate IP space? randy
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Randy Bush wrote:
It appears NSI is establishing franchises throughout the world and the franchisees get commissions on domains and IP nets handed out. And what justification do you have for this rumor? Or is it more black helicopters? I just spoke to a franchisee who gave me all the information listed. He says NSI has something known as "levels" and he is known as a Level II franchisee (total of 3 levels - with small local ISPs being level III). He did not know who the other franchisees are but did say he saw something in the paper about one being set up in UK and in Switzerland.
To allocate IP space?
randy
So said the franchisee to me by phone. Hank Nussbacher
It appears NSI is establishing franchises throughout the world and the franchisees get commissions on domains and IP nets handed out. And what justification do you have for this rumor? Or is it more black helicopters? I just spoke to a franchisee who gave me all the information listed. He says NSI has something known as "levels" and he is known as a Level II franchisee (total of 3 levels - with small local ISPs being level III). He did not know who the other franchisees are but did say he saw something in the paper about one being set up in UK and in Switzerland. To allocate IP space? So said the franchisee to me by phone.
Well, since we can be fairly confident that part is false, we should be very suspicious of the rest, eh? randy
Hank, NSI is not setting up franchises to sell or allocate or "hand out" IP space. Kim Hubbard InterNIC Registry
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Randy Bush wrote:
It appears NSI is establishing franchises throughout the world and the franchisees get commissions on domains and IP nets handed out. And what justification do you have for this rumor? Or is it more black helicopters? I just spoke to a franchisee who gave me all the information listed. He says NSI has something known as "levels" and he is known as a Level II franchisee (total of 3 levels - with small local ISPs being level III). He did not know who the other franchisees are but did say he saw something in the paper about one being set up in UK and in Switzerland.
To allocate IP space?
randy
So said the franchisee to me by phone.
Hank Nussbacher
that didn't asnwer the question of domain franchises. On Sun, 11 May 1997, Kim Hubbard wrote:
Hank,
NSI is not setting up franchises to sell or allocate or "hand out" IP space.
Kim Hubbard InterNIC Registry
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Randy Bush wrote:
It appears NSI is establishing franchises throughout the world and the franchisees get commissions on domains and IP nets handed out. And what justification do you have for this rumor? Or is it more black helicopters? I just spoke to a franchisee who gave me all the information listed. He says NSI has something known as "levels" and he is known as a Level II franchisee (total of 3 levels - with small local ISPs being level III). He did not know who the other franchisees are but did say he saw something in the paper about one being set up in UK and in Switzerland.
To allocate IP space?
randy
So said the franchisee to me by phone.
Hank Nussbacher
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Ben Black wrote:
that didn't asnwer the question of domain franchises.
Kim doesn't deal with domain names at the Internic. And domain names aren't that relevant to this network operations list anyway. If you want to ask the same question on a list that deals directly with this, send your query to newdom@ar.com and send a message reading subscribe to newdom-request@ar.com so that you will see the replies.
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Kim Hubbard wrote:
Hank,
NSI is not setting up franchises to sell or allocate or "hand out" IP space.
Kim Hubbard InterNIC Registry
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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 -- Tom Newell tomn@internic.net +1 703 742 4796 Mngr, Info & Educ Svcs InterNIC Registration Services PGP Key fingerprint = 5E 86 3D 13 73 19 69 08 6B 54 6A 7D AD A2 37 6D
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