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?