Joshua: Sorry for my previous post--I should be more carefull when I'm tired. In any case, note that I have been working from the published ARIN policies and the quoted RFC. BTW, the link you provided lists RFC2050 as the assignment policy for all the RIR's. Chuck On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Joshua Goodall wrote:
charles,
what I was actually trying to convey was that the published policies are what you have to deal with, not the RFC, and that in particular, some RIR policies have diverged from 2050.
I have never been employed by an RIR. I simply know/knew enough people on the inside of one particular RIR to know how things worked in practice.
this may be of interest: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/registration/rir-comp-matrix-rev.ht...
and I suggest you don't publicly flame private emails in future.
J
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