PI vs PA Address Space

• To: "Mike Norris" < >
• From: Daniel Karrenberg < >
• Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 10:19:20 +0200
• Cc: Local Internet Registries in Europe < >
  Internet Assigned Numbers Authority < >
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  > "Mike Norris" mnorris@localhost writes:
  > 
  > ...
  > The
  > addresses themselves have no intrinsic value; it is only when
  > combined with the other elements of the service, including the
  > ability to aggregate them for onward advertising, that they
  > have significance in providing an Internet service.

I fully agree with you. However we get a significan number of requests
from enterprises who -at this point- do not want "Internet service" but
want to build private internets with other enterprises. This demonstrates
that there is an intrinsic value in the uniqueness of a number even 
without "Internet service" with a capital I.  I believe that IRs should
continue to provide this uniqueness for reasonable requests.

I agree with your other remarks and will try to make them even clearer in
future documents.

Daniel

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