[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] RE: [6bone] /20 allocated - update your BGP filters!

Engin Gunduz wrote:

> I'm not too sure about it. 'EU' is ambiguous here: does the data owner
> mean European Union? Or Europe as a continent? Or the RIPE service region?
> Or just 'many countries'?

Maybe I should clearify this.

This goes back to the time when we created a LIR that would
span over all european countries - eu.telianet. This LIR was
created to provide addresses for our global backbone and
not for a specific country. Hence the name EU.

>From a geographic standpoint its is based in sweden but it
provides services for all our operations within europe -
and outside as well.

When we started to do the IPv6 request for TeliaSonera we
had two options:

1) To request thru each LIR we have today wich would
   result in a number of "small" blocks.

   or

2) Do a single request for the whole global TeliaSonera wich 
   would result in one large address block.

We went for 2) and the natural choice was to use a LIR
that was already covering most countries. So the choice
became our "EU LIR". 

Regards

-- amar

TeliaSonera /Telia Net