lowering maximum assignment window

>  I'd disagree. Surely you ask your customers to justify anything more than a 
>  /24's work of network address space? If you don't already do this you
>  are probably in breach of the RIPE guidelines, For +every+ customer we
>  have we fill out a RIPE form irrelevant of assignment window. I think this
>  should be mandatory, its easy to encapsulate the RIPE form in a 
>  requirement survey for your new customers and have the Order Handling 
>  System generate a vanilla RIPE form for your records or to send out for
>  approval from the RIPE NCC. I think a /19 as an assignment window is 
>  way too high and I'd agree with what Paula has said in her email. 
>  

I am sorry, I think you misread my email. All assignments no matter how small
should get a 141 form filled in and kept with customer records, but not sent to
RIPE, unless its greater than a /19 or your assignment window.

>  If you aren't asking your customers what they need such large
>  assignments for then how do you know there is no waste of address
>  space?

There was no mention in my email of not filling in 141 info for assignments or
even gathering the information. All i said was to reduce a registries windows
for a short time, so the info you already gather gets sent to ripe then when
the window is raised once RIPE is happy we go back to not sending the request
to RIPE but keep all the relavent data on file. We do large assignments so i do
not agree that a /19 is too large, for most ISP's (small to medium) it is.


>  
>  Regards,
>  Neil.
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Date: 10-Feb-99
Time: 14:16:05

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