Re: Paetec PI space?

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org> wrote:
> It's got to be PA space.  Paetec isn't in a position to assign PI space.

No distinction is drawn between PA and PI for ARIN-region address
space assigned prior to ARIN's inception in 1997. That's "legacy"
address space.

Since the end of filtering on prefixes shorter than /24, PA and PI
have lost most of ther distinction anyway. There's RIR-assigned and
there's LIR assigned. The RIR assignes addresses to LIRs and end
users. The LIR assigns addresses to LIRs and end users. Unless its
IPv6 in which LIRs are strongly discouraged from assigning addresses
to other LIRs and multihomed end users.

Short version: drop PI and PA from the conversation. It makes
absolutely no difference whether the customer thought Paetec assigned
them PI space. The customer's addresses are either directly from ARIN
or they're from Paetec. That's it. If the latter, it's up to Paetec
what the customer can and can't continue to do with them.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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