NSI and competition to RIPE and APNIC

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I am not sure if this is the proper forum so if not, please send me to the
right one. It appears NSI is establishing franchises throughout the world
and the franchisees get commissions on domains and IP nets handed out.
What is most interesting is IP net allocations. RIPE handles Europe,
APNIC handles Asia Pacific and Internic used to handle everything else. It
would appear that NSI is gearing up to challenge that premise by setting
up frachisees all over the world to hand out IP blocks. How will that
affect routing tables? Has IANA stated anywhere that Internic should
*not* handle areas covered by RIPE and APNIC?

Hank Nussbacher

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It appears NSI is establishing franchises throughout the world and the
franchisees get commissions on domains and IP nets handed out.

And what justification do you have for this rumor? Or is it more black
helicopters?

randy

3

I just spoke to a franchisee who gave me all the information listed. He
says NSI has something known as "levels" and he is known as a Level II
franchisee (total of 3 levels - with small local ISPs being level III).
He did not know who the other franchisees are but did say he saw something
in the paper about one being set up in UK and in Switzerland.

Hank Nussbacher

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It appears NSI is establishing franchises throughout the world and the
franchisees get commissions on domains and IP nets handed out.

And what justification do you have for this rumor? Or is it more black
helicopters?

I just spoke to a franchisee who gave me all the information listed. He
says NSI has something known as "levels" and he is known as a Level II
franchisee (total of 3 levels - with small local ISPs being level III).
He did not know who the other franchisees are but did say he saw something
in the paper about one being set up in UK and in Switzerland.

To allocate IP space?

randy

5

So said the franchisee to me by phone.

Hank Nussbacher

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It appears NSI is establishing franchises throughout the world and the
franchisees get commissions on domains and IP nets handed out.

And what justification do you have for this rumor? Or is it more black
helicopters?

I just spoke to a franchisee who gave me all the information listed. He
says NSI has something known as "levels" and he is known as a Level II
franchisee (total of 3 levels - with small local ISPs being level III).
He did not know who the other franchisees are but did say he saw something
in the paper about one being set up in UK and in Switzerland.

To allocate IP space?

So said the franchisee to me by phone.

Well, since we can be fairly confident that part is false, we should be very
suspicious of the rest, eh?

randy