In message <20010522213112.H17832@Space.Net>, Gert Doering writes:
Hi,
seems I got carried away :-)
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:37:40PM +0200, Hans Petter Holen wrote:
| Much more important than working out the details of what criteria qualify | you for a /22 would be what criteria will cause RIPE to revoke the /22 it | has assigned.
The proposal was that in order to qualify for a "standard /20 PA block" you would need to
- Demonstrated efficient utilisation of a /xx (/22?) Or - Immediate need for a /xx (/22?)
- Agree to renumber (Required? Recommended?)
So the proposal is that in order to get a /20 you need to provide documentation that you need some percentage of that adress space (25%).
This is similar to the ARIN policy.
I think it makes sense - if you are not able to fill a /22, your network is "smallish". So using PA space and renumbering when changing ISPs is not *that* hard, if done properly (DHCP, DNS, no hard-coded IP addresses anywhere).
I know several companies who would be willing to renumber once per year as long as they can be multihomed... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.