Address allocation, local procedures for review

  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.
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>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.
    
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  Wilfried Woeber                :  e-mail: Woeber at CC.UniVie.ac.at
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