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

[John Curran <jcurran () arin net>]

Apologies for cross-posting, but I believe this relevant to the NANOG operator community.
FYI,
/John

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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)