Last Resort Registries
Daniel Karrenberg Daniel.Karrenberg at ripe.net
Thu Jul 20 12:53:35 CEST 1995
Last-Resort local IRs have been established to serve end-users who do not have access to another local IR either because they do not connect to the Internet yet or because Internet service providers were not yet providing registry services. Recently the introduction of route aggregation (CIDR) and the proliferation of local IRs operated by service providers greatly reduce the usefulness of Last-Restort local IRs. Even worse, the routing of non-aggregatable address space negatively impacts the Internet routing system. Such space either is or shortly will be less then useful for the end-user because they have to renumber when connecting. Also there is now private address space available for use of end-users who want address space that is guaranteed not to be used by another end-user on the Internet. Additionally the Last-Resort registries form an anomaly in the RIPE NCC charging system, because they do not contribute to NCC funding while using NCC resources. Consequently it has been proposed several times already to close down the Last-Resort registries. I think it is now time to finally take such a step with a timeframe of end Q3/95 or at the end of the year. Are there any serious problems with this step? Daniel
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