<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">Could someone explain the summary bit that I have highlighted - does it mean the african region has no way of protecting its IP resources? <br>
</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br>We have the SL policy. AFAIK, no other region has placed such a restriction on its resources.<br><br>Sometimes folk have good reasons to use addresses in Region B and C, even though they were obtained in region A. If a compnay has a global network for example, is it fair to make them become 5 different LIRs, one in each region? It also helps in aggregation to have fewer blocks allocated to large networks.<br>
<br>What drc has pointed out is that it is non-trivial to determine where resources are used.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>