On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:08:08 -0000 (GMT) Stephen Burley <stephenb@uk.uu.net> wrote:
Not really. This not an academic arena, people are paying for the best servic e they can get and want their connection tomorrow i am not joking. This reminds me of the UK name space requests which had a 3 to 5 day turn around which was unacceptable so nominet was created and took over the UK name space, we now have instant registration. Just an example of why 3 days is not an acceptable delay in installation time i think your comment was a little naive.
Stephen you are talking absolute rubbish. For an assignment greater than a /21 it is acceptable that this may take longer, any customer would understand, if you are saying that you can make UUNET out to be better because you can arrange a /19 quicker than we can, then I intend to protest to the RIPE about this, as it is clearly unfair. What would you do for a customer that wanted a /18? How is this any different to a customer who wants a /19 or a /24 ? You aren't making any sense. In anycase, my experience of getting responses from UUNET usually takes atleast 5 working days [thats on a good week] [as both a customer and non-customer] so it looks like you have much bigger issues to solve before this really impacts on your service ability.
I disagree, the lowering of the largers registries aw to a lower size will probably generate just as much work for ripe. Also if you only apply this to the largest aw's then what about the registries with aw of less than /21, the y could be making as many mistakes and not applying policies, all registries mu st be equaly treated. By rotating the lowering as in Paula's last email then all registries are checked for policy compliance.
Its still sound awfully like you just don't want the hassle of having to email the ripe about allocations, how many greater than /21 blocks have you given out? Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking. C O L T I N T E R N E T neil@COLT.NET NetBSD-1.3.3 released! ftp://ftp.uk.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">computer!</A>