<html><body 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></body></html>