On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:06:35 -0000 (GMT) Stephen Burley <stephenb@uk.uu.net> wrote:
Can I make a suggestion:
We leave the maximum as a /19 and for a period of time lower the registries assignment window to a reasonable level i.e. a /22 or /23 which will give eac h registry the time to prove their procedures and expose them to RIPE policies again. This could be done on a rotational basis so each registry could prove to RIPE that they have good working practice. Once RIPE was happy with the registry they would raise the assignment window to the original size. This could be done on a 2 year basis. So within a 2 year period RIPE would be happ y that any given registry is applying RIPE policy and DB correctly. Of course this would not need to be done to registries who RIPE are already in regular contact with.
I propose this as i do not like adding more load on RIPE as we already have to wait 3 days for a response, costing time and money, something a customer w ill not accept, which is what lowering the assignment windows for everyone would create.
My thoughts, any others?
I'd disagree. Surely you ask your customers to justify anything more than a /24's work of network address space? If you don't already do this you are probably in breach of the RIPE guidelines, For +every+ customer we have we fill out a RIPE form irrelevant of assignment window. I think this should be mandatory, its easy to encapsulate the RIPE form in a requirement survey for your new customers and have the Order Handling System generate a vanilla RIPE form for your records or to send out for approval from the RIPE NCC. I think a /19 as an assignment window is way too high and I'd agree with what Paula has said in her email. If you aren't asking your customers what they need such large assignments for then how do you know there is no waste of address space? Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking. C O L T I N T E R N E T neil@COLT.NET NetBSD-1.3.3 released! ftp://ftp.uk.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">computer!</A>