<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Yogesh Chadee <<a href="mailto:yogesh@afrinic.net">yogesh@afrinic.net</a>></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>AfriNIC Whois Database Changes - 4-byte ASN and DNSSEC support </b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 11, 2012 3:34:58 PM GMT+04:00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:announce@afrinic.net">announce@afrinic.net</a><br></span></div><br><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear colleagues,<br><br>We are pleased to announce that AfriNIC now supports exclusively<br>4-byte AS Numbers and shall not make any distinction between 2-byte<br>only AS Numbers (ASDOT) and 4-byte only AS Numbers (ASPLAIN). As from<br>now, AfriNIC will operate AS Number allocations from an<br>undifferentiated 4-byte AS Number allocation pool. This feature has<br>been implemented to be compliant with RFC5396 which deals with the<br>Textual Representation of Autonomous System (AS) Numbers.<br><br>More information can be obtained from:<br><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2005-ASN-001.htm">http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2005-ASN-001.htm</a><br><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5396">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5396</a><br><br>Moreover, AfriNIC will soon activate DNSSEC support on its DNS<br>infrastructure including the IANA delegated reverse zones we manage.<br>We have therefore implemented the "ds-rdata" attribute in the DOMAIN<br>object of the Whois database. This will allow members to publish<br>Delegation Signer (DS) records to build the chain of trust for their<br>RDNS zones.<br><br>More information can be obtained from:<br><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/dnssec">http://www.afrinic.net/dnssec</a><br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>-------------------------<br>Yogesh Chadee<div>Software Engineer<br>AfriNIC</div></div></blockquote></div><br>
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