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David Randolph Conrad davidc at iij.ad.jp
Tue Jul 27 12:29:38 CEST 1993

>Another solution is to divide the numbers that go with the initials in a
>nic handle among the NICs, so for instance the NCC could give out nic handles
>that have numbers between 2000 and 4000, InterNIC 0-2000, APNIC 4000-6000
>etcetera. This is similar to the address allocation scheme ...

The way the JPNIC currently allocates NIC handles is to append JP to a
Internic style handle.  Perhaps extending this to the top level NICs
(e.g.  appending EU for RIPE and AP for Asia/Pacific) might also
provide a reasonable way of solving the problem.

-drc

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