* Randy Bush
You can announce them anywhere you like. But you cannot assign them to end users outside outside of the region.
really? so i have a /16 from ncc and i spread it over pops in ams, lon, and nyc, but i can not have bgp-speaking customers in that address space in nyc? if true, that is soooo broken.
That is my understanding, at least. I asked this question to the RIR panel at the mic in Rome, whether and APNIC region ISP could (post APNIC depletion) set up a LIR in the RIPE region (or any other region), and allocate addresses from there and assign them to end users in their home region. The answer (which came from Geoff Huston IIRC) was something along the lines of «no, you have to assign the addresses in the service region from which they were allocated». If this was not the case, I would not have expected the APNIC depletion from significantly slow down the global rate of IPv4 delegations, only that it would simply shift from the APNIC region to other regions as IPv4-hungry Asian providers started allocating from other regions. But looking at http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/fig09.png for example, this does not appear to have happened. -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com