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
