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I would however like you to answer the question of whether there exist entities that might do ROAs and BOAs but are not Internet Registries. I am one of those people who do not normally use the term Internet Registry and I do not know if it covers enterprises that receive allocations and do BGP.
In some parts of the world such entities are termed "LIRs" and fall within the category of "Internet Registry". In other parts of the world they are generically referred to as ISPs, even though the term is loosely used to encompass all types of entities that "receive allocations and do BGP". Others use a mix of terms, including "End User" where in the context of use it is explicitly not referring to an individual person or an end user in the traditional sense. The draft used the term in the broad sense of the first usage quoted here. Obviously there is a wealth of terms for such use. Whatever usage convention SIDR might attempt to invent over and above the existing set might well have a rather limited context of use, and may well serve to add to the resultant terminology confusion rather than reduce it.
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