Hi, On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:24:45PM +0000, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Gert Doering:
This is the whole point. There might be a business relation with a local LIR already, and that's way easier for "smallish companies" than to do international contracts with Amstedam.
Some transit providers require LIR status in their contracts (presumably, they don't want to deal with abuse complaints, RIPE policy changes, and so on, so this is understandable). Relying on an existing LIR is not always an option, even for small companies.
Not that I have ever seen such a contract - but certainly there's good reason why a large transit ISP might not want to be bothered with end customer assignment rules when their business focus is on "move packets". Tacking this to "LIR status" is a somewhat funny thing to do, though, as that has nothing to do whatsoever with the presumed purpose - a non-LIR can have PI space acquired through another LIR, and thus not bother the transit provider with all these "LIR things" but still not be LIR itself. (But this is straying from the point - Shane was talking about the current ways to get *PI* space, which, in the typical cases, is not something LIRs do for themselves) Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- did you enable IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279