bonito@nis.garr.it (Antonio_Blasco Bonito) writes:
Unfortunately there are still cases of ISPs not providing registry services for their customers. For example US providers selling connectivity in Europe do not provide IP addresses. As far as I know they do not want to be part of the European Regional IR.
I do not know of *any* significant cases of this. The issue which regional IR a provider gets allocations from is not relevant in this discussion.
Additionally the Last-Resort registries form an anomaly in the RIPE NCC charging system, because they do not contribute to NCC funding while using NCC resources.
This can eventually be solved in some way...
I agree, if we decide to keep them around we will have to charge them like any other registry. Note however, that this is not the main argument for doing away with them.
I think it could be done but there is a strong need for a document explaining the new address assignment policy.
Fully agree!
I think this document should have worldwide applicability and be published as an RFC.
Do not agree. For European Last-Resort registries a RIPE document is sufficient.
Local IRs need such a reference when they have to answer to strange address assignment requests eventually coming from network managers or small providers located in dispersed sites around the world.
Yep. Daniel