[address-policy-wg] Any-cast or uni-cast solutions

* Randy Bush

>> You can announce them anywhere you like. But you cannot assign them to
>> end users outside outside of the region.
> 
> really?  so i have a /16 from ncc and i spread it over pops in ams, lon,
> and nyc, but i can not have bgp-speaking customers in that address space
> in nyc?  if true, that is soooo broken.

That is my understanding, at least. I asked this question to the RIR
panel at the mic in Rome, whether and APNIC region ISP could (post APNIC
depletion) set up a LIR in the RIPE region (or any other region), and
allocate addresses from there and assign them to end users in their home
region. The answer (which came from Geoff Huston IIRC) was something
along the lines of «no, you have to assign the addresses in the service
region from which they were allocated».

If this was not the case, I would not have expected the APNIC depletion
from significantly slow down the global rate of IPv4 delegations, only
that it would simply shift from the APNIC region to other regions as
IPv4-hungry Asian providers started allocating from other regions. But
looking at http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/fig09.png for example, this
does not appear to have happened.

-- 
Tore Anderson
Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com