Routing wars pending?

  > Hank Nussbacher <HANK at VM.TAU.AC.IL> writes:
  > On Wed, 15 Nov 1995 11:00:04 MET you said:
  > >  With regard to the rest of your message - here is what we do, both as a
  > >  Service Provider Registry and a as backbone provider which has to deal
  > >  with routing:
  > >
  > >  We strictly refuse requests to assign address space for further
  > >  sub-assignement. Adresses are *directly* assigned to the eventual user.
  > >  If a service provider wants to act as a Local-IR, then the proper way
  > >  of doing it is to get in touch with the RIPE-NCC and establish a
  > >  registry of it's own.
  > 
  > Is that the general consensus in other countries?

This is policy for address space allocated/assigned via the RIPE NCC.
If a local registry does it they remain responsible for the assignments.
They will also have problesm with future allocations unless the
all the sub-allocated space runs out at the same time.

  > Yes Europe is very organized - but what do you do about the USA?

Fix it. :-)

Daniel