[3166] in North American Network Operators' Group
Sprint's route filters and Europe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Karrenberg)
Mon Jun 17 10:27:38 1996
To: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
Cc: "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>, Peter Lothberg <roll@stupi.se>,
iepg@iepg.org, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:21:38 BST.
<199606171321.OAA10679@diamond.xara.net>
From: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 16:14:28 +0200
> "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net> writes:
>
> Historically the way to prevent such market disfunction has been
> regulation of this sort. Which is exactly what Internic, RIPE, etc.
> do. However, where regulation is different in different geographical
> areas in what is effectively a global market place, it causes problems.
> c.f. the telecoms industry.
That is true and we work very hard to align all regional registries
to the extent possible. I see no major differences causingproblems at
the moment. If there are, please point them out.
randy Conrad has made the argument why there is a need for the
regional differences that do exist.
Daniel
