In message <88540617-14A6-4190-896A-339FD1FDDB14@blacknight.com>, "Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" <michele@blacknight.ie> wrote:
Ronald
If we were putting servers in the US we would probably have to get an AS nu mber and allocation from ARIN. We also would have non-EU clients with RIPE space.
I'm sorry Michele, but can I ask you to please clarify what point it was that you were making? I understand... and I suspect that everyone else here does as well... that if a European company (`C') supplying connectivity gets a Latin American client, for example, then yes, that Latin American client may end up being issued some IP space out of the allocations previously granted to `C'. That makes perfect sense. But the organization with the 195.80.148.0/22 block that I mentioned seems to have its own AS, and that AS appears to be independently announcing a route for that IP block. Furthermore, the IP block allocation seems to have come directly from RIPE, and not from some European connectivity provider which is simply making sub-allocations of its own previously-assigned IP space. Regards, rfg