[address-policy-wg] 2014-04 new radical suggestions

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Sander Steffann <sander at steffann.nl> wrote:

>
> If you go down this road, exactly which address blocks an organisation
> gets from ARIN will prohibit them from getting a /22 from RIPE NCC? And if
> you look at organisational structure it becomes even more complicated: what
> if a big corporation has subsidiaries in both the US and EU, and the US
> company gets address space from ARIN. Does that disqualify the EU
> company/LIR from getting address space?
>
> Remember: someone has to be able to implement the policies we create here!
> :)
>

I was about to post something very similar to this, but then you stole the
show. ;)

Very well put, I agree completely, although I think it's a bit of a mess
that we have regional separation of IP registries in the first place, this
isn't something that's fixed or mitigated by making policies dependent on
what I consider unpredictable remote social dynamics.
-- 
Jan
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