RE: Announcing APNIC IP's in ARIN region

["Siegel, David" <Dave.Siegel () level3 com>]

The only problem I've ever run into is with IP geo-location providers using the country of origin of the original 
assignments to determine the locale of the IP.  Major CDN providers and content owners then use these geo-location 
providers to provide geography specific content or for content localization.

A problem we saw at GC when using our ARIN space in APAC (which I realize is the inverse of your situation) is that our 
enterprise customers often got redirected to a cloud server in the United States rather than in their originating 
country, and this was in spite of their block being SWIP'd out to them in that country.

It's conceivable that you could have some sort of similar problem depending on the nature of your project and how you 
are planning to use their IP's.

Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Wade [mailto:brandonwade () icastcenter com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 5:58 PM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Announcing APNIC IP's in ARIN region

Hello,

I was wondering if there are any problems originating APNIC IP's in the ARIN region through transit providers? I have a 
Singapore-based prospect who would like to do business with us, but I'm not sure if I'll run into problems originating 
their IP's in the US - which were assigned to them from APNIC.

Best regards,
Brandon Wade
iCastCenter.com