"Crooks, Sam" <Sam.Crooks@experian.com> writes:
Is it permissible, from a policy perspective, for a multi-homed end user to announce the numbering resource allocation received from one RIR (for discussion purposes, let's say ARIN) to upstream service providers in a different region (for example, in the RIPE region)?
Yes.
Is it feasible from a practical perspective?
Sure, people advertise prefixes allocated by ARIN in RIPE and APNIC territory all the time. If that didn't work, multinational networks wouldn't work so well would they?
I've looked through IANA and ARIN policy and can't find anything which covers such a scenario. I have seen some things about transferring number resources from one RIR to another RIR, which is similar, but not exactly the same.
That's because the Internet is global in scope.
Suppose you are a large global enterprise, truly globalized in practice, not in mere name, and performance concerns aside, you provide failover for Internet access of enterprise users in one region by failing over to internet access in a different region. Since you probably are using 10/8 addressing within your network and you NAT the private IPv4 addresses to a public IPv4 address before sending the traffic on.., so this works. Given lack of NAT66, and the best practice IPv6 numbering which is purported to use globally routable IPv6 addresses within your enterprise network, the achievable way to accomplish the same use possible today in IPv4 would seem to be to advertise the IPv6 addressing from one RIR to a ISP in a region governed by a different RIR (or LIR).
I have worked for multiple companies where this (or something similar, like anycast, multiple discrete networks, or even international pipes) happens. No problemo. -r