[address-policy-wg] 2016-03 New Policy Proposal (Locking Down the Final /8 Policy)

Hi,

On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Aled Morris wrote:
> On Friday, 10 June 2016, Dominik Nowacki <dominik at clouvider.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Aled,
>> The data you provided is not relevant.
>>
>> For example, we have a significant number of Customers who have a number
>> of servers with us, are LIRs themselves, but we do BGP for them, as such
>> there is a significant number of /22s originated from our AS, yet not
>> owned, nor operated by us.
>>
>
> I'm curious to know what benefit such customers perceive from being LIRs
> (rather than just taking IP address space from you). From what you say they
> don't run their own networks - do they assign resources to their downstream
> customers?  Not from the 185/8 allocation obviously.


simple reasons:

- get more space than your upstream is willing to give to you

- you want but cannot get pi space so getting your own pa space is a good substitute

Greetings
Christian

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