hi gert, > I'm fairly sure Randy tried to politely bring across the message that > "we had a global registry first, and then split it up into regional > IRs, because that's what made sense, and still does".
well, i could have been polite :) and i am less sure i want to strongly assert that the split still makes sense. do the regional empires really improve the operators' life? and, while indeed this is being discussed in lacnic, it does affect the ripe region. randy
