Sprint's route filters and Europe

"Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net> writes:

Historically the way to prevent such market disfunction has been regulation of this sort. Which is exactly what Internic, RIPE, etc. do. However, where regulation is different in different geographical areas in what is effectively a global market place, it causes problems. c.f. the telecoms industry.

That is true and we work very hard to align all regional registries to the extent possible. I see no major differences causingproblems at the moment. If there are, please point them out. randy Conrad has made the argument why there is a need for the regional differences that do exist. Daniel