On 06/04/2010 07:49, Sergey Gotsulyak wrote:
We're trying to figure out if there are any reasons that make an assignment of the requested range technically challenged, but apparently there are any restrictions. According to this experiment of APNIC, described in the RIPE blog:
http://labs.ripe.net/content/pollution-18,
engineers from the APNIC or RIPE NCC have a certain freemdom in experimenting with undistributed addresses like 1.1.1.1 (2.2.2.2) ?
Yes, they need to do this to ensure that the address space which is assigned is generally reachable from a variety of locations on the internet and that it isn't widely filtered in bgp.
That means that theoretically it is possible to manually enter data in the RIPE database and manually distribute address 2.2.2.2 for it to find a really beneficial application for the internet community,
All RIRs have the ability to choose what address space is assigned from what pool. The question you're asking is whether they would be prepared to single you out for preferential treatment by assigning you address space which has what you perceive to be higher commercial value than arbitrary addresses. I don't think there's any policy which states that the RIPE NCC can't do this. On the other hand, there may be operational reasons why they wouldn't: preferential treatment and assignment of potentially polluted address ranges being two that immediately spring to mind. Nick