On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Hans Petter Holen wrote:
-"it is currently very difficult to get IP address space" and as a result of that we have to plan complex network solutions with a combination of private and public addresses.
This claim is very different from the one I tend to make: "you get the addresses you need as long as you can provide documentation that you realy need them".
I agree with that, although I use to have a hard time convincing my manager to come up with copy's of invoice and all kinds of other 'strategic' information to proof to RIPE that we really needed the IP-space that was required by that time. I wonder what RIPE does with all this information? I trust they destroy it, after the IP-request has been approved? And how about returning IP-space? The procedures there are not very clear to me (except for the case when the LIR does not pay its fee). Can allocated address-blocks for example be transferred to another party without mediation of RIPE after a merge of company's or something of that kind? Cheers, -- Marco