[164139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Paetec PI space?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Wed Jun 26 15:00:17 2013
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <64E23E75-7C4F-4817-A626-C46EBC91C917@hopcount.ca>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:57:46 -0700
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Joe,
On Jun 26, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:
>> We have a customer who was assigned some PI IPv4 space by Paetec back =
in mid-90's
> I think it's correct to say that the only entities that can assign PI =
IPv4 space are RIRs and the IANA.
Nope. Historically, there was no distinction and people could (and did) =
sub-allocate address space with no terms of service indicating the =
address space should ever be returned. After the establishment of the =
RIRs and the creation of the PI/PA distinction (encouraged with much =
controversy in the CIDR/ALE working group days), there was a concerted =
effort by the RIRs to move towards a "lease" model. I believe that =
effort may have been reflected in RSAs at the RIRs, but am too lazy to =
look it up. =20
Regards,
-drc
