<p dir="ltr">Great news to hear on a day like this! Congratulation to everyone that contributed towards making this a reality, congratulations to the entire Internet community.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Happy new month, happy independence to ICANN and to all Nigerians here ;-)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sent from my LG G4<br>
Kindly excuse brevity and typos</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 Oct 2016 5:09 a.m., "Alan Barrett" <<a href="mailto:alan.barrett@afrinic.net">alan.barrett@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear AFRINIC community,<br>
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It’s now a few minutes after midnight in Washington, DC. The IANA contract between NTIA and ICANN has expired.<br>
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ICANN is now performing the IANA Numbering Services (assigning IP addresses and ASNs to RIRs, and some related tasks) in terms of a contract between the RIRs and ICANN, instead of in terms of a contract between the NTIA and ICANN. ICANN asked for permission to sub-contract the IANA Numbering Services to PTI, and the RIRs consented, so the IANA functions will actually be performed by PTI, although ICANN remains responsible.<br>
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Apart from announcements and press releases, you will probably not notice much difference.<br>
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Alan Barrett<br>
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