Malaysia ponders regulating management of IP addresses

Wants to revive the lost art of the National Internet Registry, which APNIC has deprecated and isn’t keen to bring back The government of Malaysia has commenced a consultation on whether it should regulate management of IP addresses and autonomous systems numbers, over objections from regional internet registry the Asian Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC). Malaysia announced its consultation in June, when the nation’s Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) posted a p