On 23/05/2012, at 11:12 AM, Tore Anderson wrote:

> * Tore Anderson
>
>> That is my understanding, at least. I asked this question to the RIR
>> panel at the mic in Rome, whether and APNIC region ISP could (post
>> APNIC depletion) set up a LIR in the RIPE region (or any other
>> region), and allocate addresses from there and assign them to end
>> users in their home region. The answer (which came from Geoff Huston
>> IIRC) was something along the lines of «no, you have to assign the
>> addresses in the service region from which they were allocated».
>
> Found it: http://ripe61.ripe.net/archives/video/18/ @ 22:03
>

I think I said "we expect some alignment to these regions, but this is an
expectation not a hard and fast rule", but I seem to have taken a few hundred
words to do so! And I made some reference to human inventiveness that may be used
to circumvent any such conventional expectations. :-)

regards,

   Geoff