Congrats to all on getting this done! It's been a long time in coming. Good to see it finally finished.
Regards, -drc On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:00 PM, John Curran wrote: > Apologies for cross-posting, but I believe this relevant to the NANOG > operator community. > FYI, > /John > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: ARIN <i...@arin.net<mailto:i...@arin.net>> > Date: February 16, 2011 3:53:38 PM EST > To: <arin-annou...@arin.net<mailto:arin-annou...@arin.net>> > Subject: [arin-announce] IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Complete > > Today ARIN and ICANN are jointly working on the transition of the technical > management function for the IN-ADDR.ARPA zone from ARIN to ICANN. ARIN > carried out the DNS zone maintenance function for IN-ADDR.ARPA since 1997 and > worked closed with ICANN throughout the transition period. > > Immediately upon transfer to ICANN, the IN-ADDR.ARPA zone will also be signed > using DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC), providing end-users with the ability > to validate answers to reverse DNS queries. The IN-ADDR.ARPA zone is also in > the process of being moved from twelve root servers to dedicated nameservers > operated by the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and one operated by > ICANN. > > For more details on the history of this transition please see > <http://in-addr-transition.icann.org/>. > > Regards, > > Communications and Member Services > American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) >
