From info at arin.net  Wed Dec 12 16:13:57 2007
From: info at arin.net (Member Services)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:13:57 -0500
Subject: [arin-announce] Change in Renewal Invoicing for 2008
Message-ID: <47604F15.8070107@arin.net>

Beginning with the invoices due in January 2008, due dates for all ARIN 
renewal invoices will shift to the last day of the month in which an 
organization's anniversary occurs. This includes renewals for all IP 
address resources, ASNs, and registration transfers. The anniversary 
date for an organization is the date when its first resource 
registration from ARIN was completed. With this change, the month of the 
anniversary date will be the only factor for determining when invoices 
will be due. This should simplify accounting for customer organizations.

Regards,

Bob Stratton
Director, Financial Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)





From info at arin.net  Thu Dec 13 11:48:28 2007
From: info at arin.net (Member Services)
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:48:28 -0500
Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Offers New Core Service Over IPv6
Message-ID: <4761625C.1080404@arin.net>

Starting 13 December 2007, ARIN will begin publishing an AAAA record in 
DNS for whois.arin.net.  With this addition, ARIN will have four 
services available over IPv6 transport:
* DNS,
* FTP,
* Web,
* and WHOIS.

The new WHOIS service is experimental, and may suffer occasional outages 
and slower response times than the current service over IPv4.  We are 
excited to make another core service available to the community over 
IPv6, and we are working to make this a production quality service in 
the near future.

Regards,

Mark Kosters
Chief Technical Officer
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)





From info at arin.net  Fri Dec 21 09:10:06 2007
From: info at arin.net (Member Services)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:10:06 -0500
Subject: [arin-announce] =?windows-1252?q?December_22=2C_2007_is_ARIN=92s_?=
 =?windows-1252?q?10th_Anniversary!?=
Message-ID: <476BC93E.8040001@arin.net>

Over the last decade ARIN has endeavored to fulfill its mission:

?Applying the principles of stewardship, ARIN, a nonprofit corporation, 
allocates Internet Protocol resources; develops consensus-based 
policies; and facilitates the advancement of the Internet through 
information and educational outreach.?

Our achievements are numerous.  As an organization we have:
*   Issued 18,500 ASNs
*   Registered 300 million IPv4 addresses
*   Processed 7.5 billion WHOIS queries
*   Registered 2.63038 X 1031 IPv6 addresses

And as a community we have:
*   Made 9,250 posts to the Public Policy Mailing List
*   Discussed 95 Public Policy Submissions
*   Held 20 Member Meetings and 17 Public Policy meetings

Every day, as an organization and a community, we build on the 
foundations laid by John Postel and the efforts of so many others. The 
result is not only a system to delegate Internet number resources, but a 
bottom-up, open, and transparent framework for number resource policy. 
All of this is accomplished under the governance of an executive board 
elected by ARIN members with the support of a dedicated professional 
staff, an elected Advisory Council, and an involved community.

To see the special multimedia presentation we've created to help 
celebrate this anniversary, please see the website version of this 
announcement at:
http://www.arin.net/announcements/20071221.html

ARIN is moving forward into its second decade with a continued 
commitment to service, and the principles the Internet was founded on: 
openness, transparency, and community self-governance.

Regards,

Raymond A. Plzak
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)