On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 02:42:55PM +0100, Måns Nilsson wrote:
The current problem is that the RIR membership has self-selected to a state where they set policies that ensure the end customer has no alternative except to be locked into their provider's address space.
Do note that, IIRC, RIPE had this up for discussion some time ago and opted in-session for an "one AS -- one global prefix" solution which was then overridden because APNIC and ARIN weren't as impressed by that solution.
Don't blame Europe ;-)
This is interesting, didn't know about that. Can you provide any reference (WG minutes, mailing list archive URL or so)? That'd be a good starting point to re-visit this. Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr@cluenet.de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0