On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:53 AM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:55:07PM +0100, OndEej SurC= wrote:
2008/12/4 <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com>:
what makes a RIPE meeting any different than say, a GEANT meeting, a IEEE or IETF conference, or any other technical conference of short duration (say 2 weeks long)?
RIPE region? RIRs can get microallocation in ARIN and APNIC region (maybe LATNIC and AfriNIC).
sure... any of these types of conferences -IN THE RIPE REGION- are going to need address space. they can all go get their own and pummel the routing system w/ adds/deletes as the come/go...
You're aware, of course, that this would be so far down in the noise in the routing flux that only the terminally pedantic would notice, right?
or... one prefix could be carved out and handed to whomever needs it this week/month.
Long ago, APNIC dedicated a block of /16s to show networks. Don't know if that's still the use of that block. One interesting side note: it turned out that connectivity contracts for shows had significantly longer duration than the shows themselves. On several occasions the ISP for the old show refused to stop announcing the prefix APNIC allocated for the show because they had a contract that required them to announce the address space. The fact that the prefix was no longer registered to the show operator in the APNIC was irrelevant. Much entertainment ensued. But that was long ago. I'm sure things are much better now. Regards, -drc