On Mar 9, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Leo Vegoda wrote:
Hi,
Sander wrote:
Splitting the allocation can be done for many reasons. There are known cases where one LIR operates multiple separate networks, each with a separate routing policy. They cannot get multiple allocations from the RIR and they cannot announce the whole allocation as a whole because of the separate routing policies (who are sometimes required legally, for example when an NREN has both a commercial and an educational network).
If they have two different routing policies and need two different allocations, why not just have two different LIRs? It makes things a lot easier than spending untold weeks or time trying to work out which corner cases should be supported by policy and which should not. No?
Leo
This may depend on where you are. Being two LIRs in the ARIN region requires setting up two complete legal entities which is a lot of overhead to carry for just that purpose. Owen