[89135] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Fri Mar 3 05:36:02 2006
In-Reply-To: <OF34C14606.4410E60F-ON80257126.003986EC-80257126.0039BDD6@btradianz.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 11:34:50 +0100
To: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3-mrt-2006, at 11:30, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
>>> If you feel you should qualify as an LIR,
>> With RIPE, an LIR is simply an organization that pays the membership
>> fee and thus gets to submit requests for address space and AS
>> numbers. ARIN doesn't seem to use this terminology except in their
>> IPv6 address allocation policy.
> That's what we were talking about. Shim6 and IPv6. The term
> LIR is used in IPv6 allocation policy in all regions and refers
> to an entity that assigns /48 blocks to its subscribers. Such
> an entity can receive a /32 from ARIN or RIPE or APNIC or LACNIC
> or AFRINIC.
No, a LIR has the privilege of paying their RIR a fee. Wether they
can get a /32 is another matter.
