One question about RIPE

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:33:12AM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> 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

This should read "and accept PA space from us".  Sorry for the typo.

(I've exchanged a few more mails with Andreas in between, and it seems
that the issue isn't explained clearly enough in the RIPE LIR course -
but in any case it's documented in the "policies and procedures" RIPE
document.  The network in question is PA space, and the answer is "you
can route it for a certain time, if both ISPs agree, but then the 
PA space HAS to be returned to the ISP it belongs to").

Gert Doering
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