On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Leo Vegoda wrote:
ASSIGNED PA: This address space has been assigned to an End User for use with services provided by the issuing LIR. It cannot be kept when terminating services provided by the LIR.
My interpretation of the above is ASSIGNED PA is the equivalent of my assigning IP space to a customer who either buys transit (connectivity) from us or colo's or buys server hosting from us where they will use that IP space. We don't simply lease out IP space for "customers" to use as they please on other networks.
I am sure that your interpretation was the original intent of the policy text. However, the wording could also be read in a way that allows an LIR to just provide registry services, without providing any connectivity services.
That's one hell of a stretch. Registry services aren't needed if they don't have the IP space, so saying that the service the end user is buying that justifies the IP assignment is 'registration services' is a circular argument. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________