PI vs PA Address Space

> From: lear at yeager.corp.sgi.com (Eliot Lear)
> 
> But Tony, even if one declares oneself an ISP, it's not clear to me
> they should be treated any differently.  They should still go
> upstream to get addresses, unless and only unless there is no
> upstream (read PAID provider).

But the current rules don't always support doing that.  We can't get
addresses from our upstream paid provider (AlterNet) because we're
geographically located in RIPE territory while our Internet connection
goes into InterNIC territory.  Is this common?  It doesn't really make
a lot of sense since our geographic location has nothing to do with our
network location.  And that's not likely to change, since there's no
likelihood of there being a regional network in this part of the word
anytime in the foreseeable future, and it's cheaper to get an
international link to the US than it is to Europe, even though the
latter is geographically closer.

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