Hi Christian,

The question is how complex an evaluation must be? The facts needed to evaluate a normal IP requests are simply the number of nodes needing a public IP address. In case one or more nodes needs more than 1 IP address then documentation is needed to explain why to exceed the normal rules, also in case the expected growth pr. year exceeds 100%.

Yes, but I don't have any problem to ask endusers about their (planned) hardware and to document their needs in the way we've done it since several years now, like "We have 20 PC's, 5 routers, 200 dial-in-ports and so on..." This general information will (in most cases) be sufficient to evaluate IP requests.

It would of course be easier to falsify the number of nodes than to falsify the documentation, but in case an end user intends to falsify information in order to get more IP addresses than justifyable, then I don't see any easy way to prevent this.

Right, but there are still enduser who don't know about classless addressing. That means they are asking for "Class-C" nets just because they think its hip. So I think it's responsibility of the LIR's to tell this endusers about CIDR and its outcomes. And, yes I agree: If an enduser wants to cheat at you, I can't see a way to prevent this.

I would find it reasonable if larger requests still required some form of documentation, for example /24 and above. But it would of course still be very important for all LIRs to stress that the information received from the enduser must be correct.

ACK! This way it would be possible to serve the main part of the customers at a simple level and only ask reasonable questions (hardware documentation) if the request exceeds a certain level. I would like to stress that the /24 border should be the maximum limit of "freedom" given here. Maybe it's better to decrease this "HW-documentation-border" down to /25 or /26 ? What do you think? mit freundlichen Gruessen/with best regards Ludger Bornhorst ______________________________________________________________________ Deutsche Telekom AG T-Com Headquarters Network Information Center Ammerlander Heerstr. 138, D-26129 Oldenburg Hotline +49 441 234 4581 (phone) +49 800 3301180 +49 441 234 4589 (fax) +49 800 3301179 ludger.bornhorst@telekom.de (mail) dk.call-center@telekom.de