lowering maximum assignment window

-----Original Message-----
From: Paula Caslav <paula at ripe.net>
To: lir-wg at ripe.net <lir-wg at ripe.net>
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 4:50 PM
Subject: lowering maximum assignment window


>
>Hi all,
>
>As we discussed in our audit report at the Local IR working group at
>the RIPE 32 meeting, we would like to propose a change in the maximum
>assignment window that a Registry can have. Currently an assignment
>window for a Registry can be anything between a 0 and a /19. The /19
>assignment window, is a historical legacy.
> ....

>Actually for most Registries, a /24 or /23 assignment window is
>enough, since they rarely make larger assignments than that. However,
>for the Registries that make more large customer assignments, having
>up to a /21 assignment window would allow them room to make most of
>these larger assignment without coming to us for approval.
>
>Please think about this proposal and give us any comments by the end of
>next week.


What about BGP announces which are less then /19? Many (if not all) of
the major providers (like C&W, SprintLink) are filtering them out, at least
for
the 195/8 block.

???

Kind regards,
Andrei Masalov
PTTNET.