Re: One question about RIPE

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• From: "Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" < >
• Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:59:01 +0200
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  Hi Gert,

>PI ("provider independent") address space - this could theoretically
>be used.  You do not have to ask the old ISP or RIPE for permission. You 
>just register the routes in the RIPE database, ask the old ISP to
>stop announcing them, and start announcing them via BGP.  PI space has
>other disadvantages, though, like "much harder to debug if some goal
>in the Internet cannot be reached", so we usually recommend to the 
>customer to return his PI space to RIPE and accept PI space from us
                                                    ^^
  I guess this should be "PA" here !? ______________/

>(unless the PI block is very large and the customer network so complex
>that it would make renumbering too hard).

  Cheers,
  Wilfried.
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