[AfriNIC-rpd] Fwd: [AfriNIC-announce] AfriNIC Whois Database Changes - 4-byte ASN and DNSSEC support

[Adiel Akplogan]

FYI

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> From: Adiel Akplogan <adiel at afrinic.net>
> Date: May 12, 2012 16:04:42 PM GMT+04:00
> To: announce at afrinic.net
> Cc: George Nyabuga <george at afrinic.net>, arthur Arthur <arthur at afrinic.net>
> Subject: [AfriNIC-announce] AfriNIC Whois Database Changes - 4-byte ASN and DNSSEC support 
> 
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>> From: Yogesh Chadee <yogesh at afrinic.net>
>> Subject: AfriNIC Whois Database Changes - 4-byte ASN and DNSSEC support 
>> Date: May 11, 2012 3:34:58 PM GMT+04:00
>> To: announce at afrinic.net
>> 
>> 
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> We are pleased to announce that AfriNIC now supports exclusively
>> 4-byte AS Numbers and shall not make any distinction between 2-byte
>> only AS Numbers (ASDOT) and 4-byte only AS Numbers (ASPLAIN). As from
>> now, AfriNIC will operate AS Number allocations from an
>> undifferentiated 4-byte AS Number allocation pool. This feature has
>> been implemented to be compliant with RFC5396 which deals with the
>> Textual Representation of Autonomous System (AS) Numbers.
>> 
>> More information can be obtained from:
>> http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2005-ASN-001.htm
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5396
>> 
>> Moreover, AfriNIC will soon activate DNSSEC support on its DNS
>> infrastructure including the IANA delegated reverse zones we manage.
>> We have therefore implemented the "ds-rdata" attribute in the DOMAIN
>> object of the Whois database. This will allow members to publish
>> Delegation Signer (DS) records to build the chain of trust for their
>> RDNS zones.
>> 
>> More information can be obtained from:
>> http://www.afrinic.net/dnssec
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> -------------------------
>> Yogesh Chadee
>> Software Engineer
>> AfriNIC
> 
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