To: lists-lir-wg-out@lists.ripe.net To: James Aldridge <jhma@KPNQwest.net> Reply-To: <E15UTi5-0001hs-00@aegir.EU.net>

Of course, that one sub-TLA gives us a total amount of address space which is adequate for our current requirements for the whole network but once this is split over each of about 20 separate autonomous systems, each with their own routing policy, this is hardly going to result in optimally aggregatable routing...

And when you explain this to RIPE, how do they respond? If you can make a bona fide engineering argument for obtaining more than one sub-TLA, it seems to me that any RIR is obliged to seriously consider that argument. /david