[ppml] Allocation and reallocation

[Owen DeLong]

Michael,
        As Kathy pointed out earlier, in ARIN parlance and in the terms used
by most ISPs, ALLOCATION is used to refer to the entrustment of an organization
with the management of a block.  That is, RIRs ALLOCATE to LIRs.  End users,
on the other hand, receive ASSIGNMENTS from LIRs or RIRs.

Owen


--On Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:12:15 PM +0100 Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:

> ARIN manages numbering resources that can be visualized as a number line.
> Organizations can apply to ARIN for a range of those numbers. When ARIN
> allocates (or assigns) these ranges of numbers, they also specify whether
> or not the recipient is delegated to reallocate (or reassign) these ranges
> either in whole or in part. If an organization is delegated reallocation
> rights
> then they must agree to apply the ARIN rules of stewardship.
>
> Assignment and allocation are two similar terms which are considered
> identical in this context.
>
> --Michael Dillon
>
> P.S. Some people refer to these two types of ranges as delegated
> allocations
> and end user allocations to distinguish them.
>
> P.P.S. All organizations receiving allocations (assignments) directly from
> ARIN are free to announce them via their own AS or via their ISP's AS.
> In this sense, they are portable allocations. Reallocations
> (reassignments)
> are not portable and generally may not be announced by an AS not belonging
> to the delegated recipient unless they agree to such announcements.



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