Dear all, I was encouraged by a couple of friends to submit the follwoing text to a wider audience for discussion and review. I would be very interested in receiving your thoughts or comments. Maybe we can shortly touch this at the WG meeting, as well. Here we go... Wilfried. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

What has not yet been mentioned I noticed is the even worse situation of customers changing provider and thus splitting CIDR blocks. In effect its the same as AUP/non-AUP allocation above. This will also have an affect on routing table size - what to do in these cases ?

Well, I'm currently doing the design for an update to our (ACOnet Local-IR's) "official" letter that goes with any newly allocated address. In addition to the obvious and local stuff (mailing lists, DB update, and so on) I plan to include the following rules: - the addresses are allocated for (eventually) connecting to *ACOnet*. - address space must not be given away to "third parties" without the prior knowledge and explicit consent of the ACOnet Local-IR. It may however be used to connect other organisations downstream in tree-structured approach - as long as the technical and organisational responsibility remains with the original recipient of the address space. - should (for whatever reasons) the connection not be implemented with ACOnet, then both ACOnet and any other service provider involved may request the re-numbering of this site, allowing a reasonable timeframe for achieving this. - there are some more things to be added which are referring to necessary steps to actually request, obtain (and in some cases pay) for the connection and band-width used which are not relevant for the Local-IR point of view. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at Computer Center - ACOnet : Vienna University : Tel: +43 1 4065822 355 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Fax: +43 1 4065822 170 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : NIC: WW144 --------------------------------------------------------------------------