RIPE NCC ADDRESS POLICY CHANGES

*** CHANGES IN RIPE NCC ADDRESS POLICY ***

During the RIPE 36 meeting in Budapest (16-19 May 2000) the LIR 
working group agreed that the RIPE NCC will:

- lower the minimum allocation from a /19 to a /20.

- this change will take effect starting August 1


Allocations of this size will initially be issued from CIDR block 217/8.

Minimum allocations do not constrain requests for address space that 
can justify bigger blocks of addresses.

** If you use prefix based filtering in your routers, please note 
this change **

regards,

Joao Damas
Head of External Services
RIPE NCC