Hi all, As we discussed in our audit report at the Local IR working group at the RIPE 32 meeting, we would like to propose a change in the maximum assignment window that a Registry can have. Currently an assignment window for a Registry can be anything between a 0 and a /19. The /19 assignment window, is a historical legacy. These Registries were for the most part free to assign up to 8192 addresses to a customer without coming to the RIPE NCC for approval. Since some of them are still operating as Local Registries, and they still have a /19 assignment window, this means that we have very little contact with them and we have seen in doing audits on these Registries that many of them are out of date with the procedures for assigning IP addresses, and using the database. We also notice that most of them do not really use this large assignment window fully- meaning that most of their assignments are smaller. The router technology has changed much in the last few years, which means that assignments to customers in general are much smaller. Given the fact that most Registries rarely make such large assignments, and the fact that having such a large assignment window makes it easy for them to lose touch with the RIPE NCC policies, we would like to propose having a lower maximum assignment window. We think a /21 maximum assignment window would be more reasonable. Actually for most Registries, a /24 or /23 assignment window is enough, since they rarely make larger assignments than that. However, for the Registries that make more large customer assignments, having up to a /21 assignment window would allow them room to make most of these larger assignment without coming to us for approval. Please think about this proposal and give us any comments by the end of next week. Kind regards, Paula Caslav Registration Services Manager RIPE NCC