[anti-abuse-wg] Re: Policy proposal: closing allocation/assignment window, was Policy disallowing spam from RIPE blocks

On 10 Mar 2011, at 14:31, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
> <michele at blacknight.ie> wrote:
>> A LIR should have the technical know-how etc., to manage requests etc., in a cost-effective manner
>> A lot of the organisations that take PI space probably don't ..
> 
> PI space normally argues a specific need such as multihoming, or
> portability across ISPs.   Any organization that has the technical
> knowhow to do this ...

I disagree

We were in that position a few years ago

It made a lot more sense to get PI space than to become fully fledged members of RIPE 

There's an admin overhead etc


> Any ISP can allocate a /24 to a customer with a T3 or a rack of
> servers - but does that space necessarily need to be PI?

It depends on what you are doing.

And yes PI space makes sense

If you get a bunch of IPs from company X and you then stop using them you'll need to renumber


> 
> -- 
> Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)

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