On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl> wrote:

If you go down this road, exactly which address blocks an organisation gets from ARIN will prohibit them from getting a /22 from RIPE NCC? And if you look at organisational structure it becomes even more complicated: what if a big corporation has subsidiaries in both the US and EU, and the US company gets address space from ARIN. Does that disqualify the EU company/LIR from getting address space?

Remember: someone has to be able to implement the policies we create here! :)

I was about to post something very similar to this, but then you stole the show. ;)

Very well put, I agree completely, although I think it's a bit of a mess that we have regional separation of IP registries in the first place, this isn't something that's fixed or mitigated by making policies dependent on what I consider unpredictable remote social dynamics.

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