New AS request in another country

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Herbert Baerten wrote:

>> - have to start up its own LIR (which includes getting a /20 allocation),

And some additional money, of course ...

>> - have to request a /20 or larger assignment from an existing LIR,
>> in order to get an 'announcable' prefix, right (i.e. one that will not be
>> filtered out anywhere)?

Well, not the "assignment", becuase the assignment can't have subassignments.
A rather better approach is to try to plan address space assignment within
the current allocation smarter. Say, if xx.foo was allocated 172.16/16 in the
past and it wants to start its business in the country YY, then they may
"reserve" a small /20 within that allocation (say 172.16.240/20) and start
assigning addresses to YY customers from that /20, while using the rest of
the /16 for XX customers. From AS Y they will announce 172.16.240/20 and
everything will be fine.

Of course, everything would be much more elegant if RIPE NCC finally
implemented the additional SUB-ALLOCATED PA/PI status attribute, that was
proposed by James Aldridge long ago, adopted by the LIR working group and
passed to the DB WG for implementation. With such a scheme the LIR xx.foo
would simply make a sub-allocation of 172.16.240/20, register it normally
in the RIPE Database, give it SUB-ALLOCATED PA status, so the whole
picture would look more proper and clean.

Regards,
Beri

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