Hi, On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:50:36PM -0700, Jeff Williams wrote:
Thanks for your explanation. So I guess this means two different policies because Afnic in this case "requested" such?
Every region has different policies. The part of the RIPE region that is going to be AfriNIC soon has a different policy from the "core" RIPE region, yes. This was, as I said, mainly done to get all the parts of Africa "in line" with a common policy - both the LIRs served by RIPE today, as well as the LIRs served by ARIN today.
Interesting method of policy determination...
*All* policy is the way it is because the LIRs affected have requested it, and achieved consensus on it. You can read up the discussion and the motivation behind the change in the mailing list and meeting archives. It's not necessary to discuss this again now. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 66629 (65398) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299