Address space requests to airline companies

  > poole at eunet.ch writes:
  > > Dear local-ir's,
  > > 
  > > We have received a number of IP address space requests for airline
  > > companies in the past. During the IETF, I learned that a class A
  > > network number (network 57.0.0.0) has been assigned to an organisation
  > > (SITA) under the condition that airlines will get any address space
  > > required from this allocation.
  > > 
  > > If you receive an application, please forward them to SITA. If
  > > there are any difficulties, please forward the request to
  > > <hostmaster at ripe.net>
  > 
  > I would think that this is legally totally untenable. I know of at least
  > one airline that is not a network customer of SITA and forcing them to
  > become one is probably not in the cards.

This is known here.  All we want is that any airline is pointed to SITA
first.  If this does not work local registries should notify the NCC. 
We will take note of the reasons and probably assign address space (thru
local registries if appropriate).  We will docuemnt these cases in order
to prevent re-occurrence of such an arrangement if it turns out
un-workable.  Please note that the NCC was not consulted by IANA before
this assignment was made.  We would probably have advised against it. 

Daniel