On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:45:19AM +0200, Berislav Todorovic wrote: Hi Beri,
Very simple. If you need 16 x /20 in order to cover your business needs in multiple countries or multiple regions/cities within a country - you have two choices:
* To open one LIR and get the initial /20.
On the other hand, if you can get a contiguous /16 immediately
So that's what it boils down to. Getting a /16 immediately vs getting a /20 immediately. Is that really the problem for the big old ISPs where I hear the complaints from ? I believe that all the legacy PI assignments are much more of a problem for aggregation. If you think about new growing ISPs then its more a question of allocation policy on the side of RIPE NCC than of introducing a new hierarchy of registries. Spreading allocations to allow for future aggregation helps for all allocations, not just the "multi-regional" ones.
The only alternative to this approach is opening separate LIRs for separate countries and cities, getting separate allocations for each other, which is an administrative nightmare, while the allocations won't be able to get aggregated!
I doubt that multiple LIRs handling the multiple regions is an administrative nightmare. It's a problem when the LIRs compete somehow, but why should they within a single organization ? -- i.A. Michael van Elst / phone: +49 721 9652 330 Xlink - Network Information Centre \/ fax: +49 721 9652 349 Emmy-Noether-Strasse 9 /\ link http://nic.xlink.net/ D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany /_______ email: hostmaster@xlink.net [ KPNQwest Germany GmbH, Sitz Karlsruhe ] [ Amtsgericht Karlsruhe HRB 8161, Geschaeftsfuehrer: Michael Mueller-Berg ]