lowering maximum assignment window

On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:08:08 -0000 (GMT) 
 Stephen Burley <stephenb at uk.uu.net> wrote:

> Not really. This not an academic arena, people are paying for the best servic
e
> they can get and want their connection tomorrow i am not joking. This reminds
> me of the UK name space requests which had a 3 to 5 day turn around which was
> unacceptable so nominet was created and took over the UK name space, we now
> have instant registration. Just an example of why 3 days is not an acceptable
> delay in installation time i think your comment was a little naive. 

Stephen you are talking absolute rubbish. For an assignment greater than
a /21 it is acceptable that this may take longer, any customer
would understand, if you are saying that you can make UUNET out to
be better because you can arrange a /19 quicker than we can, then 
I intend to protest to the RIPE about this, as it is clearly unfair.
What would you do for a customer that wanted a /18? How is this
any different to a customer who wants a /19 or a /24 ? You aren't making
any sense. In anycase, my experience of getting responses from UUNET
usually takes atleast 5 working days [thats on a good week] 
[as both a customer and non-customer] so it looks like you have much bigger
issues to solve before this really impacts on your service ability.

> I disagree, the lowering of the largers registries aw to a lower size will
> probably generate just as much work for ripe. Also if you only apply this to
> the largest aw's then what about the registries with aw of less than /21, the
y
> could be making as many mistakes and not applying policies, all registries mu
st
> be equaly treated. By rotating the lowering as in Paula's last email then all
> registries are checked for policy compliance. 

Its still sound awfully like you just don't want the hassle of having
to email the ripe about allocations, how many greater than /21
blocks have you given out? 

Regards,
Neil.
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