Re: [rrg] More abbreviation expansions

I think either set works, but pick one and stick to it, that's the
important bit.

-chris

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Brian E Carpenter
<brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have always understood PA to mean Provider Aggregatable
> or Provider Aggregated (which is of course only possible
> because they are assigned by the provider who will perform
> the aggregation).
>
> In terms of history, I have in my archive a note drafted
> in 1995 by Daniel Karrenberg at RIPE, entitled
> "Provider Independent vs Provider Aggregatable Address Space"
> (sent to nanog@merit.edu, cidrd@iepg.org, IANA@isi.edu and
> local-ir@ripe.net on 17 May 1995).
>
> "provider assign[ed]" also pops up in my archive from the same
> era, but "aggregatable" seems to be the more common usage
> (46 vs 18 hits in my archive).
>
> Regards
>   Brian Carpenter
>
> On 2010-02-27 14:41, Tony Li wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've received the following proposed text:
>>
>> PA - Provider Assigned: Addresses which cannot be 'taken with you' when a
>> site moves to a different location on the network connectivity
>> structure; usually assigned by a service provider (hence the name).
>>
>> PI - Provider Independent: Addresses associated with a site and which move
>> with it when it moves to a different location on the network connectivity
>> structure; independent of any service provider (hence the name).
>>
>> Any objections?
>>
>> Tony
>>
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