PI vs PA Address Space

  > Tim Goodwin <tim at pipex.net> writes:
  > > If you agree, tell me too.
  > 
  > Looks basically sound to me.
  > 
  > We will want to be able to assign PA space to potential customers in
  > advance of them actually connecting, since it is common for companies
  > to start renumbering their internal network some time before they
  > finally commit to connecting.  I guess there's no problem with having
  > a "service" (with an annual fee) that consists only of assigning and
  > holding PA address space.

Sure. The point is about the customer not being able to take address space
with them, rather than receiveing Internet Service. I will take that into
account.

  > The notion that we can no longer say "here are your IP addresses, they
  > are yours for ever, no matter where you connect to the Internet" will
  > be unpopular with our customers, and thus with our sales and marketing
  > department.  It will therefore be helpful if this scheme is mandatory
  > (both so we can tell S&M "we *have* to do this", and so there's no
  > distinction between us and our competitors).

That is why we have this discussion. The RIPE NCC will certainly apply the
same guidelines to all European registries. 

  > Are there any timescales for implementation?

It has been argued in CIDRD that global routing is about to collapse.
On the other hand noone has yet come up with a consistent and implementable
set of policies let alone established consensus.

The NCC will propose a revised ripe-104 as soon as the dust settles on
a global scale.

Daniel