On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 12:02:27PM -0700, David Kessens wrote:
However, it was also mentioned during the meeting, and now again on this mailing list, that the requirements might not be so difficult at all for such organizations. It is probably useful for the earlier mentioned organizations to read the actual policy document, decide whether they actually should go to an upstream or that there is indeed a way for them to qualify and only as the *last* option to raise an issue on the list (that is the lir-wg list, not this list) *after* their application has been rejected and no way out, while working with the RIPE NCC, was found.
I don't mean to nag, but the "upstream" situation was exactly why the former policy was a major problem for me. My only upstream provider is NORDUnet, which is a coalition of NRENs in the nordic area. NORDUnet is a transit provider only (from a routing POV) and have no aggregations from which to assign addresses. As far as I know NORDUnet gets some addresses for services from Sunet, but that's all. Thus there was no upstream provider to go to for addresses. (However, I am confident that things are going to work out all right with the new policy.) Peter B. Juul, Uni�C (PBJ255-RIPE)