On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Christian Schild wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2002 09:31 schrieb Gert Doering:
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:27:07AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Gert Doering wrote:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:24:13AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
I wonder what interpretation of "other organizations" is used when RIPE NCC evaluates the applications..?
I always understood it to be "a different legal entity".
Using 200 employees for that sounds a bit borderline to me, though.
Right.. Employees, as any other people, different legal entities, though...
Yes, of course. It's valid to the letter of the policy, but it's not really in the spirit of it. The idea was to catch "companies that manage IP allocations for third parties as part of their core business" (to avoid the term "ISP").
A company with 200 employees - and a university with 10.000 students - are interesting problems, though. Shall each "home site" get a /48? Or is it "one /48 for the whole company/university, and each home site only gets a /64"? I can't answer that.
I think as a student and even a students home is part of the university and not a third party entity, the university could give him any prefix within their address space, and yes e.g. a /64. It is part of the universities SLA space and it's up to them to decide what should go to the students home.
This might defy the "/48 for every endsite" rule, but anything else is impracticable.
Being usually for a loose policy on these issues, i can agree with Christian, and i wouldnt be shocked if a university (/48) decides that student homes get one /64 or several /64s (if several is the choice, perhaps it will be easier to reapply for a second /48 on the university side... ;-) But i think its rather difficult for a student home to apply for a /48, being that traffic routed via university... Will NRENs have that task of assigning /48s to everyone inside universities? Hard to imagine... Regards, ./Carlos "Networking is fun!" -------------- [http://www.ip6.fccn.pt] http://www.fccn.pt <cfriacas@fccn.pt>, CMF8-RIPE, CF596-ARIN, Wide Area Network Workgroup F.C.C.N. - Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional fax: +351 218472167