<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 24, 2014, at 4:37 PM, gehoumi <<a href="mailto:gehoumi@benintelecoms.bj" class="">gehoumi@benintelecoms.bj</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Andrew,<div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div style="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-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="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-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">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 class=""></blockquote></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><font size="2" class="">Why these offices that are off continent, can't ask IP addresses from the RIR who serve that region ?</font><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>It’s a pain to have to manage relationships for your global company’s satellite offices with 4 RIRs that aren’t in your timezone.</div><div>2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Most of them have no space left.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>