[address-policy-wg] Historical questions about ip address policy

Hi Milton,

I've already replied in private, but because Shane has set a precedent
I'll reply to the list too ;)

>Hi Milton Mueller,
>
>This might interest you:
http://www.ripn.net:8082/nic/ripe-docs/ripe-132.txt
>
>Minutes from a meeting on 25-Oct-1995 discussing moving to a charging
system instead of using funding. That might answer your second question.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tom




-----Original Message-----
From: address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net
[mailto:address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Shane Kerr
Sent: 22 May 2009 10:52
To: Milton L Mueller
Cc: 'address-policy-wg at ripe.net'
Subject: Re: [address-policy-wg] Historical questions about ip address
policy

Milton,

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 18:25 -0400, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> If anyone knows the answer to these questions they will help in a
policy study I am doing
> 
> 1. When (i.e., what year) did RIPE-NCC first require RSAs or contracts
as a condition of registering an address allocation or assignment? 
> 
> 2. When (i.e., what year) did RIPE-NCC first charge fees for services
or addresses?
> 
> 3. When (i.e., what year) did RIRs generally or RIPE-NCC specifically
begin to use the 80% HD Ratio as a criterion for eligibility to receive
more addresses?
> 
> If this is considered too off-topic for this list please answer
privately. 

I don't know the answers to any of these questions, but I do know how I
would find the answers.


The hard way to do find the answers would be to look in the RIPE
document archive:

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/

The easy way would be a send a mail to the RIPE NCC:

http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/email-contact.html

Some poor staff member will likely have to munge through the documents
too, but at least they will have a good idea where to start looking.


Good luck! (Hopefully you're not working for the dark side...)  ;)

--
Shane