lowering maximum assignment window

Hello,

we completly agree with the Mail from Neil

> 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.
> 
well UUnet seems to have a /19 AW, so they had no need to contact the RIPE NCC
for approval. If they would have done it, they would know, that this doesnt
take very long time.
Stephen, how many assignment > /21 do you have ? If you take a RIPE-141 for
your own records, why not sending it to RIPE NCC ? The delay would be
just 3-4 days, if you have a *good* RIPE-141 template...
I dont think, the RIPE NCC Hostmasters are a team of idiots, they will check
every request in a fair way so if your request is according to the current
policy..



You have a big advantage over those ISPs, who only have a /23 or /22 AW
and you are using this advantage against competing ISPs. If we have 
a customer with a need for a /21 we must send a template to RIPE NCC and
wait 3-4 days, you can proceed without delay. 
Some very old IRs have some Class-B networks, which have never been
assigned to them and they are still used, if you have a look in the global
routing table, e.g for dialup-customers etc...(these networks are
only allocated, but not assigned!)

We think a /21 is enough and most *big* customers today are using a
firewall, thus needing not more than a /23.... and for internal use, you are
free to take adress space from 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 that is more than
you ever need :-)




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