* Elmar K. Bins

>> However, if I build a data center in China I cannot use RIPE region
>> address space to number it. (Even if the customers hosted in that were
>> all incorporated in the RIPE region.)
>
> I wonder if this might actually be true. Could you show a pointer into
> the relevant document?

I don't know where it's stated explicitly in any document, however the
title of ripe-530 is «IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies
*for the RIPE NCC Service Region*» (emphasis mine). I'm not aware of any
RIPE policy document that covers out-of-region assignments. So from that
you might infer that such assignments are not permitted. And the LIR
panel at the RIPE meeting in Rome said so, too (see my response to Randy
Bush).

If on the other hand out-of-region assignments are valid and allowed, I
cannot fathom why those fast growing ISPs in China, India, Vietnam and
so on that were allocating IPv4 addresses from APNIC at an incredible
rate right up until the day APNIC hit the /8 have not simply set up
legal organisations in the RIPE region, joined the NCC, and continued
allocating from here in more or less the same rate as before APNIC ran out.

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Tore Anderson
Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com