At 10:44 a.m. 27/09/2007, Philip Smith wrote:
Sebastian Bellagamba said the following on 27/9/07 23:32:
I am not sure if I follow well the idea of potential RIR shopping. Let's
say we have GLOBALISP Inc, based in some (North) American big city, with
a huge operation in the US and Europe; GLOBALISP also have a really
small operation in, for example, Argentina. Do you really think that
GLOBALISP Argentina could justify a request for a /8? If they do, how do
you imagine that RIR staff would handle that justification and approve
the subsequent allocation?
GLOBALISP could put their next global request in through their
Argentinian office. What is stopping them doing this at the moment? Does
LACNIC have a policy which says that LIRs who are members of other RIRs
cannot get address space apart from what is going to be used in the
country of operation?
LACNIC allocates addresses only to be used in the region.
We have (not very often) received request for
addresses to be used in the region.
Maybe people don't have a right idea about the
size of allocations that we do in the region.
The biggest allocation that we have done is an
/11 and there are very few exceptions like that.
So, receiving an allocation to sastisfy the
requirements of an ISP in a developed country, will not pass unnoticed.
But, anyway, I think that this is not a very
important point, because in anycase the worst
scenario about this kind of behavior is just equivalent to what we have today.
Raúl