Re: [arin-announce] IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Complete

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

Congrats to all on getting this done!  It's been a long time in coming. Good to see it finally finished.

Regards,
-drc

On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:00 PM, John Curran wrote:

> Apologies for cross-posting, but I believe this relevant to the NANOG operator community.
> FYI,
> /John
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: ARIN <info () arin net<mailto:info () arin net>>
> Date: February 16, 2011 3:53:38 PM EST
> To: <arin-announce () arin net<mailto:arin-announce () arin net>>
> Subject: [arin-announce] IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Complete
>
> Today ARIN and ICANN are jointly working on the transition of the technical management function for the IN-ADDR.ARPA 
> zone from ARIN to ICANN. ARIN carried out the DNS zone maintenance function for IN-ADDR.ARPA since 1997 and worked 
> closed with ICANN throughout the transition period.
>
> Immediately upon transfer to ICANN, the IN-ADDR.ARPA zone will also be signed using DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC), 
> providing end-users with the ability to validate answers to reverse DNS queries. The IN-ADDR.ARPA zone is also in the 
> process of being moved from twelve root servers to dedicated nameservers operated by the five Regional Internet 
> Registries (RIRs) and one operated by ICANN.
>
> For more details on the history of this transition please see <http://in-addr-transition.icann.org/>.
>
> Regards,
>
> Communications and Member Services
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)