[rpd] AnyCast Address

[Ernest]

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Bill Woodcock wrote thus on 6/5/14, 4:58 PM:
> 
> On Jun 5, 2014, at 2:58 AM, Mark Elkins <mje at posix.co.za> wrote:
>> A question was asked "in which country should the resource be
>> registered in" (possibly something to do with geo-location???) 
>> An AnyCast block of IP's can (and should) be used any/every
>> where in the world... The "Location" of the block though should
>> be registered at the primary address of the member who asked
>> for the AnyCast block. Perhaps GeoLocation services should use
>> an "Earth" flag for now? - or UN Flag?
> 
> I asked two questions:
> 
> 1) When an LIR subnets an allocation, and sub-allocates those
> subnets to different countries, what’s the method for
> country-coding those sub-allocations?  SWIP?  RWHOIS?  I wasn’t
> clear on Ernest’s answer to that question.

We don't use the 'SWIP' wording here, but yes, it's ARIN's SWIP
equivalent. The LIR adds the subnet into the whois database; such a
subnet would have a "status" attribute value of either "ASSIGNED PA"
or "SUB-ALLOCATED PA" as well as the appropriate "country" attribute
value.

Regards,
Ernest.
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