Geert Jan de Groot writes:
Playing around with this leads to a few more interesting ideas. These are personal; butcher them down if you don't like them: - Maybe we should make a point that people who want address space 'so they can connect later' to ask them to make a choice of ISP first and only THEN get address space (from the provider registry, that is). If they have a small network, say up to 100 hosts or so, having them use private address space and renumber once they connect should not be so bad.
Agree fully but I think this should be announced from some more authorative entity than a local-ir. RIPE will do fine. At least if there is a way to prevent situation where the customer does not go to some ISP other than the one handling the last-resort-ir and gets an address there and later when he's about to connect, feels that he got bad service from the ISP/last- resort-registry and goes to the ISP he got the addresses from. The point is that the above works if RIPE enforces this policy on ISP registries and last-resort-registries. (on all you give address space)
- This would point more work to ISP-registries instead of the L-R registry. This brings down the work on the L-R registries (who do this for free, after all), and brings these costs to ISP registries (who might see this as 'customer service' and thus have justification why their IR-activities cost effort and money) - It makes CIDR work better!
Agree with these two too. When we get a 'RIPE recommendation' that we can hand out to the applicants that apply for address space but are not planning to connect in immediate future ? Pete