[hostmaster-staff] Re: MIR proposal / reservation revisited?

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:45:19AM +0200, Berislav Todorovic wrote:

Hi Beri,

> Very simple. If you need 16 x /20 in order to cover your business needs
> in multiple countries or multiple regions/cities within a country - you
> have two choices:
> 
> * To open one LIR and get the initial /20.
>
> On the other hand, if you can get a contiguous /16 immediately

So that's what it boils down to. Getting a /16 immediately vs getting
a /20 immediately. Is that really the problem for the big old ISPs
where I hear the complaints from ? I believe that all the legacy
PI assignments are much more of a problem for aggregation.

If you think about new growing ISPs then its more a question of
allocation policy on the side of RIPE NCC than of introducing
a new hierarchy of registries. Spreading allocations to allow
for future aggregation helps for all allocations, not just the
"multi-regional" ones.


> The only alternative to this approach is opening separate LIRs for
> separate countries and cities, getting separate allocations for each
> other, which is an administrative nightmare, while the allocations  
> won't be able to get aggregated!

I doubt that multiple LIRs handling the multiple regions is
an administrative nightmare. It's a problem when the LIRs compete
somehow, but why should they within a single organization ?


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