North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Portability of 206 address space
> The interNIC has already stated that allocations can *not* be guaranteed > to be 'routable', so it stands to reason that the interNIC (or any other > registry, for that matter) need not concern itself with the issue of > portability. As you mentioned, this is strictly a matter between the ISP(s) > and the customer(s). > > - paul I think portable wrt the NICs may be: (1) The 'Portable' vs. 'Non-Portable' marker on the ISP IP request template (2) The 'Portable' vs. 'Non-Portable' marker on whois queries that says: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE Now, as to what it *means*, it probably means that if you asked the NIC in question, they'd say 'touch luck' if you wanted to contest a SWIPping away from you of the space, I suppose. Of course, since the NIC refuses to delegate > /16s worth of in-addr.arpa, unless you have a <= /16 from your provider, you're not going to get useful in-addr.arpa from your old provider if they don't want you to. Avi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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