Address space for individuals

  Hi Daniel,

=  > Erik-Jan Bos <erik-jan.bos at SURFnet.nl> writes:
=  > > This sums up my personal opinion.
=  >
=  > Great, quite along my personal opinion, but we need a consistent
=  > approach among all Local IRs.
=
=We will write something up next week. If someone else does before
=us we can use that!
=
=My proposal would read like:
=
=	- very small enterprises (VSEs) are those <32 hosts now

  Just to make sure that we think along the same lines: I'd strongly
  favour an approach where there is NO difference being made between
  private ("for personal use") and corporate/commercial applications...

=	- last resort registries will not assign address space to VSEs
=
=		- VSEs can use private address space (RFC1697)
=		- VSEs are easy to renumber once they connect
=		- VSEs are likely to connect with one host only
=
=	- service provider registries will assign VSEs smaller amounts
=         of address space than 8 bits where possible
=
=	- service provider registries will register these smaller amounts
=	  in the RIPE database when possible
=
=Rationale:
=
=	Very many VSEs with 8 bits of address space each will use up
=	too much address space.
=
=
=
=Is this acceptable to all?
=

  Good for me.

=Implementation: If this was accepted the NCC could accept classles
=inetnums very soon even before the indexing is fully classless.
=
=Question: Should we publish such things as RIPE documents or just
=circulate them among registries as "current practise recommendations".
=I personally think we should publish them, but have heared reservations.

  From the point of "open-ness" and information dissemination I'd agree
  to publish this, however, we have to aware of that these documents tend
  to float around for a long time, even after some cicles of update.
  
  BUT, if we start to publish the address assignment rules, any such
  document proposed IMHO has to cover many more aspects, for instance any
  financial implications we might come up with....

  Wilfried.
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