
Hi Brandon: The difference is control. If you lease to a different network, or give an IP to a server you rented to a customer, yes, in both cases you will have customer consensus to renumber them, but since leasing at minimum /24, but most hosting customer are in single IP, the difficulty and challenge are quite different. The discussion I like to see if there will be an best operation practice in assigning those IPs to avoid fragmentation in the long run. On Thu, 3 Jul 2025 at 18:00, Brandon Butterworth via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
On 03/07/2025 08:49:07, "Lu Heng via NANOG" <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote
With the increasing prevalence of address‐space leasing—effectively operating as “mini‐RIRs” for IP distribution—fragmentation of address blocks has become a critical concern.
How is that different from a regular provider assigning space (a LIR in RIPE terms)? They just need to keep the RIR data current for all their assignments, they are in no sense a mini RIR, that is a different function.
As they are just renting out space that otherwise would have been allocated to a LIR then they should operate as a LIR.
brandon
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