Hi Brandon: The difference is control.
If you lease to a different network, or give an IP to a server you rented to a customer, yes, in both cases you will have customer consensus to renumber them, but since leasing at minimum /24, but most hosting customer are in single IP, the difficulty and challenge are quite different. The discussion I like to see if there will be an best operation practice in assigning those IPs to avoid fragmentation in the long run. On Thu, 3 Jul 2025 at 18:00, Brandon Butterworth via NANOG < [email protected]> wrote: > On 03/07/2025 08:49:07, "Lu Heng via NANOG" <[email protected]> > wrote > >With the increasing prevalence of address‐space leasing—effectively > >operating as “mini‐RIRs” for IP distribution—fragmentation of address > >blocks has become a critical concern. > > How is that different from a regular provider assigning space > (a LIR in RIPE terms)? They just need to keep the RIR data current > for all their assignments, they are in no sense a mini RIR, that > is a different function. > > As they are just renting out space that otherwise would have been > allocated to a LIR then they should operate as a LIR. > > brandon > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VUELL36OROUP6CPSMKSFK3W5CCOFWPHG/ -- -- Kind regards. Lu _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LIRRYK63WJKC3EJEXTOR5M42ZIJ52RR4/
