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DDN MGT Bulletin 120             DISA DDN Defense Communications System   
24 March 1993                    Published by: DDN Network Info Center
                                      (NIC@NIC.DDN.MIL)  (800) 365-3642


                        DEFENSE  DATA  NETWORK
                         MANAGEMENT  BULLETIN

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  Information Center under DISA contract as a means of communicating
  official policy, procedures and other information of concern to
  management personnel at DDN facilities.  Back issues may be read
  through the TACNEWS server ("@n" command at the TAC) or may be
  obtained by FTP (or Kermit) from the NIC.DDN.MIL host [192.112.36.5]
  using login="anonymous" and password="guest".  The pathname
  for bulletins is ddn-news/ddn-mgt-bulletin-nn.txt (where "nn" is the
  bulletin number).
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          Transition of the Internet Registration Services

As a result of the NREN NIS award by the National Science Foundation, non-DOD 
registration services will shortly be transferred from the DOD NIC to the 
new Internet Registration Service, which is a part of a service referred 
to as the InterNIC.  Internet Registration Services (which include the
registration of Internet Domains, Internet IP Network Numbers, and Internet 
Autonomous System Numbers) are gradually transitioning from the DOD NIC to 
the InterNIC.  The transition is expected to be completed by April 1, 1993.  

DOD USERS WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE FULL REGISTRATION AND HELP DESK SERVICES
FROM THE DOD NIC, AND THE TRANSITION SHOULD NOT AFFECT THEM IN ANY RESPECT.  
DOD users should continue to send registration requests to 
hostmaster@nic.ddn.mil (IP, .mil domain, inaddr for 26.x.x.x) or 
registrar@nic.ddn.mil (user registrations or TAC card requests) using 
the DISA approved registration forms.   The DOD NIC Help Desk Number 
remains (800) 365-DNIC.

After the transition, the hosts.txt file will continue to be available from
nic.ddn.mil, but it will include only MILNET hosts, gateways, and networks.  
Currently, less than 1% of all Internet hosts are contained in the hosts.txt 
file. 

Please refer to RFC 1400 for more details about the InterNIC services.

Please direct any questions about this transition to nic@nic.ddn.mil.