[163189] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geoip lookup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri May 24 10:48:08 2013
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <87F5A01F-7283-4EEE-B076-E18C710B5C9D@delong.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 07:47:56 -0700
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I replied privately to Owen, but might as well share:
On May 23, 2013, at 11:57 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>>>> True, according to (at least some of) the RIRs they reside in =
regions...=20
>>> Really? Which ones? I thought they were only issued to organizations =
that had operations in regions.
> That was exactly my point, Bill... If you have operations in RIPE and =
ARIN regions, it is entirely possible for you to obtain addresses from =
RIPE or ARIN and use them in both locations, or, obtain addresses from =
both RIPE and ARIN and use them in their respective regions, or mix and =
match in just about any imaginable way. Thus, IP addresses don't reside =
in regions, either. They are merely issued somewhat regionally.
A direct quote from a recent interaction with ARIN (this was requested =
by ARIN staff as part of the back and forth for requesting address =
space):
"Please reply and verify that you will be using the requested number =
resources within the ARIN region and announcing all routing prefixes of =
the requested space from within the ARIN region. In accordance with =
section 2.2 of the NRPM, ARIN issues number resources only for use =
within its region. ARIN is therefore only able to provide for your =
in-region numbering needs."
I believe AfriNIC and LACNIC have similar limitations on use but am too =
lazy to look it up (and I don't really care all that much: just thought =
it was amusing).
Regards,
-drc
