Dear AfriNIC's Community, <div><br></div><div>Please see my comment below, inline...<br><br>Le vendredi 6 août 2021, John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net">jcurran@arin.net</a>> a écrit :<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



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On 5 Aug 2021, at 6:04 PM, Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss <<a href="mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net" target="_blank">community-discuss@afrinic.net</a><wbr>> wrote:<br>
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ALL LIRs lease INRs. Many do it in relation to also providing</div>
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connectivity services. Cloud Innovation also does it in relation</div>
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to providing connectivity services in some (but not all) cases.</div>
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We (Cloud Innovation) assign addresses to them for use on internet</div>
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connected hosts, just like any other LIR. The only distinction between</div>
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us (Cloud Innovation) and most other LIRs is that we will do so regardless</div>
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of whether we are the provider of that connectivity or not.</div>
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<div>Thanks for the above – I believe it is helpful in clarifying how the IP address blocks are being used today.  For my understanding, is this same purpose for which they were originally requested and issued?</div>
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</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>...well put, dear John, </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for this interesting question.</div><div>...they started an "INRs War"; against RFC7020.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Shalom,</div><div>--sb.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">
<div>Thanks in advance,</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
<div>President and CEO</div>
<div>American Registry for Internet Numbers</div>
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