Hi, to followup on myself (sorry for that): On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 08:28:02PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
If you have significantly below 200 IPv4 customers, it's becoming difficult - but you should nevertheless talk to the RIPE NCC hostmasters and see what could be done.
This is still my basic recommendation: talk to the NCC hostmasters, and *iff* they reject your application, come and talk to us (lir-wg) so that we can fix the policy, if necessary (but this is a slow process). Concerning the original question, a new idea just popped up that would solve the problem of the "big transit providers" - we could adapt the "200 customers" clause to "200 /48 assignments to customers, OR provide transit to 20 other ASes". Of course we might end up in dropping the "200 /48s" rule altogether, but this is pretty much open at this stage. If you want to participate in the IPv6 policy making process - and all of you are very welcome, of course! - please join the "global-ipv6" list (global-v6@lists.apnic.net, send mail to Majordomo@lists.apnic.net with "subscribe global-v6" in it). Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 54495 (54267) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299