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). If you're actually doing LIR work (that is: hand out addresses to third parties), documenting this should also be possible.
While I agree that it at some point would be interesting to discuss how to be more agressive reclaiming address space, I would urge the WG to focus on the proposal from RIPE NCC: - should we introduce a creiteria for PA allocations - if so what should that criteria be.
I'm not so sure on the "should we", but if yes, the above criteria are a good thing. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299