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Re: Please review draft-housley-rfc2050bis-00.txt

2013-03-18 12:45:17
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:20 PM, joel jaeggli <joelja(_at_)bogus(_dot_)com> 
wrote:
On 3/18/13 6:04 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote:

I am wondering if the draft should mention that Local Internet
Registries (LIRs) may sometimes take the form of National Internet
Registries (NIRs) since this is now a reality in some places?

All of the "NIRs"  I've encountered can be construed as LIRs under the terms
of the definition of LIR in that region. apnic and lacnic I belive
specifically recognize the term.

As much as I dislike the entire term NIR I see it exist already on the
"top"/"root", to quote from http://www.iana.org/numbers

"Both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are generally assigned in a hierarchical
manner. Users are assigned IP addresses by Internet service providers
(ISPs). ISPs obtain allocations of IP addresses from a local Internet
registry (LIR) or National Internet Registry (NIR), or from their
appropriate Regional Internet Registry (RIR):"



I see APNIC are using it
(http://www.apnic.net/policy/operational-policies-nirs/text), are
anyone else? All I see is just yet another level of
administration/control?



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