* Elmar K. Bins
However, if I build a data center in China I cannot use RIPE region address space to number it. (Even if the customers hosted in that were all incorporated in the RIPE region.)
I wonder if this might actually be true. Could you show a pointer into the relevant document?
I don't know where it's stated explicitly in any document, however the title of ripe-530 is «IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies *for the RIPE NCC Service Region*» (emphasis mine). I'm not aware of any RIPE policy document that covers out-of-region assignments. So from that you might infer that such assignments are not permitted. And the LIR panel at the RIPE meeting in Rome said so, too (see my response to Randy Bush). If on the other hand out-of-region assignments are valid and allowed, I cannot fathom why those fast growing ISPs in China, India, Vietnam and so on that were allocating IPv4 addresses from APNIC at an incredible rate right up until the day APNIC hit the /8 have not simply set up legal organisations in the RIPE region, joined the NCC, and continued allocating from here in more or less the same rate as before APNIC ran out. -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com