Minimum allocation size

Dear all,

The purpose of my initial mail was simply to draw you attention to 
this coming discussion. We have a full set of data and statistics 
that we wish to present to the community in the lir-wg at the coming 
RIPE meeting in Budapest. I believe it is more useful to discuss the 
matter in detail once all facts have been presented to you.

This is a policy change that has taken place in both the APNIC and 
ARIN region, where the RIRs notified their respective communities of 
this policy change. As a result of this, routing filters have been 
adjusted accordingly and /20s are currently being announced without 
any problem. We therefore are not greatly concerned about the 
practical implications of such a change. We do however want the 
community's input as to whether such a change is desirable in the 
RIPE region.

As we will have representatives from both APNIC and ARIN present in 
the coming RIPE meeting, we propose to discuss this in more detail 
next week. Statistics and data from our region will be presented 
together with arguments both for and against such a change.

Kind regards,
Nurani


 Stephen Burley <stephenb at uk.uu.net> writes:
 * Sascha Luck wrote:
 * 
 * > Thus spoke Nurani Nimpuno:
 * > > Due to these low usage rates, the RIPE NCC is considering 
changing
 * > > the initial allocation size from the current /19 to a /20, in 
order
 * > > to
 * > > accommodate this change in the usage patterns.
 * >
 * > How is a new LIR going to announce their routes then?
 * 
 * This is a very good point, the only way round this is to have a 
mid way
 * transit point so 2 companies would share an announcment of a /19 i 
can
 * not see very many people agreeing to that. Maybe if  2 the 
registries
 * have a common upstream provider the provider would agree to 
aggregate,
 * but even then this causes problems when changing providers. Do you 
have
 * any more concrete proposals than the basic statement?
 * 
 * Regards,
 * Stephen Burley
 * UUNET EMEA Hostmaster
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