Re: [rrg] More abbreviation expansions

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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