NSI and competition to RIPE and APNIC

Sun May 11 10:28:14 UTC 1997

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