<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Andrew,<div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><br>If you look at a large international organization serving multiple African countries. They typically have offices that are off continent as well as on-continent. Those off-shore offices still need IP space and are critical to the functioning of the organizations in question. Then we have the issues of points of presence internationally, some of which can be pretty large, which include routers, switches, and potentially servers which are directly related to the functioning of the network on the African continent.<br></blockquote></div></div><div><br></div><font size="2">Why these offices that are off continent, can't ask IP addresses from the RIR who serve that region ?</font><br><div><br></div><div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Best Regard</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Grégoire EHOUMI</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">BENIN TELECOMS</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">+229 90036576</div></div></body></html>