[lir-wg] Problems with route object update

On Thu, 22 May 2003, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:

> >but if it was not an option for the LIR to be maintainer of the
> >customers PI assignment (end user mandatory maintainer) it would solve
> >the problem.
>
>   2 problems here:
>
>   - the LIR has to "donate" its resources to apply for the PI block with
>     the NCC. So there may be a reason (in some cases) for protecting the
>     object with the LIR's maintainer;
>
>   - in our case (for customers with legacy addresses) we have an agreement
>     in place to jointly manage and protect the inetnum objects. Some may
>     even choose to have us do that as a service.
>     For that reason, blocking this would be undesirable from my point of
>     view.

I couldn't agree more. We've done PI for clients on their own maintainer
if that's what they want, but creating extra maintainers "for the sake of
it" seems pointless because half the PI users may not understand how to
use their maintainer anyway!


Sebastien.


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