Re: [address-policy-wg] Draft: "status:" re-evaluation

[Gert Doering <]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:12:36PM +0200, Sebastian Abt wrote:
> > > A range of IP's can only have a single "SUB-ALLOCATED PA" in it. 
> > > That is, you cannot sub-allocate twice.
> > 
> > I wouldn't force that on anyone.  It might not always make sense, but
> > we have at least one reseller that has a re-selling customer - so a 
> > two-level structure is already in place.
> > 
> > So "please don't do that".
> 
> I disagree. Your customer should request a seperate "SUB-ALLOCATED PA"
> block for his customer or otherwise if he want's to look like being
> independent to his customer, he should become RIPE member. I hardly
> can't see advantages of making sub-sub-allocations (maybe you could
> point them out?).

It's their suballocation, and their customer, not mine - how can I judge
how big *their* customer is going to be, and how much address space
they want?

The whole point of suballocation is "give control to the people that
actually hand out the addresses" - flexibility, instead of buerocracy.

Gert Doering
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