Re: Announcing APNIC IP's in ARIN region

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

On Sep 25, 2012, at 2:05 AM, Wayne E Bouchard <web () typo org> wrote:
> It presents no technical problem but has always been considered
> politically inadvisable. I mean, there are multiple registries for a
> reason that goes beyond mere oranization and load sharing.

Always? Actually, no.

Back when the RIRs were first starting up, we pushed multinationals to obtain their addresses from the RIR that served 
the region in which their headquarters were located. The theory was that a single RIR would be better able to ensure 
addresses were used efficiently and it was more likely routing announcements could be limited. I personally got into a 
long argument with folks from Shell who wanted addresses from APNIC for their AP region networks and were displeased 
when I pushed them to RIPE-NCC ("Royal Dutch Shell", headquarters in The Hague). I believe Geert Jan DeGroot at 
RIPE-NCC (who tended to be a stickler for those sorts of things) got into similar arguments with folks from Mitsubishi 
in Europe.

Of course, the cynical might suggest that over time, such niceties as conserving address space and routing slots would, 
of course, take a lower priority to marking territory and RIR revenues, but who would be that cynical?

Regards,
-drc