[address-policy-wg] 2016-03 New Policy Proposal (Locking Down the Final /8 Policy)

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016, at 17:19, Aled Morris wrote:

> I'm curious to know what benefit such customers perceive from being LIRs
> (rather than just taking IP address space from you). 

Hi,

They have "their own" space, one /22 for them alone. Not sure this is
something easy (even less cost-effective) enough to obtain these days.

> From what you say they don't run their own networks - do they assign 
> resources to their downstream customers? 

Don't know about Dominik's customers, but some of them do. You can find
several kinds of network-less service providers out there in the wild.

Then there's the issue of things done "inside out" : ISPs running on
ASSIGNED PI (not very willing to deal with RIPE / RIPE NCC) and
end-users on ALLOCATED PA (willing to do so).