[anti-abuse-wg] RIPE policy

In message <9651ABB9-2489-4DDA-808A-36846E334B8B at icann.org>, 
Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda at icann.org> wrote:

>On Mar 8, 2011, at 3:04 PM, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com> w=
>rote:
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>[...]
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>> It wasn't so much the specific use to which the IP space is being put
>> that I was questioning.  Rather, I was wondering more about the apparent
>> re-assignment (re-selling?) of RIPE IP space, en mass, to parties outside
>> of the RIPE geographic jurisdiction.
>
>Do you mean selling IP connectivity to networks outside the region? That is=
> fairly common and not unreasonable. For instance, satellite connectivity p=
>roviders often have customers in fairly remote locations.

The several cases I posted are _not_ ``satellite connectivity providers'',
and these are _not_ just, like, /28s and /29s we are talking about here.

Apples and oranges are both sort-of round-ish.  That fact does not make
them either equivalent or interchangable.  I don't believe that it takes
an exceptional amount of wisdom to understand that.