On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 3:29 AM Ronald F. Guilmette <[email protected]>
wrote:

> In message <[email protected]>,
> Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Note that Ronald makes it clear that entities which have no nexus in the
> >AFRINIC service region should not be eligible for membership.
>
> Just to clarify, that's not exactly what I said.  I quoted the Bylaws.
> They say that one must have -both- a business footprint in the region
> -and- also must be providing some (unspecified) amount of service
> within the region.
>

The practise across the Internet is that, majority of the usage is
local/regional and a small % is outer-region to support expansion or
connectivity back into the region.

Pretty much all LIR in all regions operate at a local scale and a few with
massive economies of scale expand out especially the so called hyperscalers
and tier-1 providers so to speak.

Cheers
Noah
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