Fwd: IN-ADDR.ARPA Progress Report

Dear all,
here I forward an announcement from ARIN regarding current progress 
in the maintainance of the in-addr.arpa zone.

Best regards,
Joao Damas
RIPE NCC

>From: ARIN IN-ADDR Role <inaddr at arin.net>
>Subject: IN-ADDR.ARPA Progress Report
>Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.05.10106291525050.10191-100000 at ops.arin.net>
>
>Goal:
>
>Reduce the size of the IN-ADDR.ARPA zone file. This file will be reduced
>in size by only containing name servers for /8 networks.
>
>
>Completed Steps:
>
>Apr 2001 - Established relationships with 2 companies to provide
>independent server networks for all ARIN IN-ADDR zone files.
>
>Jun 2001 - Released a new IN-ADDR.ARPA zone file generator to correct
>existing erroneous data.
>
>
>Next Step:
>
>July 9, 2001 - ARIN will begin revising the IN-ADDR.ARPA zone for those
>direct /8 delegations to ARIN.  These /8 zone files will be serviced by
>the two ARIN nameserver networks.  These changes will not affect the
>performance of reverse lookup in any of the IPv4 Address space.
>
>Please direct any questions to inaddr at arin.net.
>
>
>Ginny Listman
>Director of Engineering
>American Registry for Internet Numbers


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