As a thought experiment, if Furio were to remove LIRs from Eastern Europe, in particular, Romania, from his list below, what would RIPE NCC's figures fall to?<br><br>Most of those /14s are swipped and then re-swipped to a succession of shell companies that appear to remain valid for the minimum possible duration - and are typically (as creating a shell company in romania requires valid ID) set up by the simple expedient of walking into a bar and paying a guy there a few euro to get him to use his ID to set up the shell company.<div>
<br></div><div>So even "a much larger number of customers in the RIPE region" is a figure that you would have to allow for substantial inflation in, when you consider these numbers.</div><div><br></div><div>--srs</div>
<div><br></div><div>On Tuesday, June 18, 2013, Gert Doering wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> ARIN clearly has a serious problem too, but when the number of<br>
> problem is normalized with the allocation size we obtain (number<br>
> of problems per /8):<br>
><br>
> AFRINIC ..... 0.31<br>
> APNIC ....... 0.35<br>
> ARIN ........ 3.44<br>
> LACNIC ...... 0.50<br>
> RIPENCC ..... 6.27<br>
<br>
I'm not sure what good is "normalizing by amount of /8s", as that is<br>
easily skewed by a few early and large allocations, of which ARIN has<br>
quite a lot.<br>
<br>
Normalizing by *number of LIRs* seems to be a much more interesting metric<br>
to see "what percentage of the LIRs under a given RIR umbrella are<br>
problematic".<br>
<br><br>
</blockquote></div><br><br>-- <br>--srs (iPad)<br>