Creation of Reverse Delegation Objects

Hi All,

this ist the response of the RIPE Robot to one of our customers after he
tried to create a reverse delegation object in the RIPE DB:

"The RIPE NCC no longer accepts requests for creation and ammendments
of reverse delegations which do not include the registry ID of an
existing Local Internet Registry.

If you are not a representative of an LIR, you should contact the
LIR who assigned you the address space, or your upstream provider..."

The customers owns his Provider Independent IP address space and is not
able to create this object as he needs to state a
reg-id in the request. Now this customers (and others in the past) claim
that they have to apply to there upstream provider in
order that this ISP creates the object. The customer certainly has is
own maintainer.

My question now:

Should  Provider Indepent IP space not be 100% Provider Indepent in
concern to its administration in the RIPE DB?
In my opinion the RIPE Robot should distinguish between PA and PI space
and not request an reg-id for customers that own PI
space and like to create a reverse delegation record.

Best regards,

Tanja Heimes


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