On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 12:54:49 +0100 Jan Czmok <czmok@ipf.net> wrote:
Hi Richard!
We run into the same scenario:
We own AS5409 - primary AS IPF.NET AS8543 - IPF.NET Spain AS8578 - IPF.NET UK
You only need a different AS if your managment of that part of the network is under different control policies. You can announce what ever you like to anyone without having to get different AS numbers.
Currently we use AS5409 for our borders. But the question arises, who wil= l be responsible if we got customers in other countries (e.g. USA). Shall we assign then RIPE= allocated address space (as we currently do for Spain and UK) or request ARIN Space with a differ= ent AS for USA ? =20 Also, as we run under de.ipf, which is not sufficient, as our company gro= ws, shall we switch to eu.ipf or use for each country a different lir ?
The Ripe Documents didn't cover this scenario AFAIK...
I think a different block for each country makes sense, you don't _have_ to put this into a different AS. [fx: the next big shortage, as numbers!] -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking. C O L T I N T E R N E T neil@COLT.NET NetBSD-1.3.3 released! ftp://ftp.uk.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">computer!</A>