Minimum allocation size
Nurani Nimpuno nurani at ripe.net
Tue May 9 11:37:51 CEST 2000
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 * * * * * > * > * > s. * > * > -- * > Sascha Luck | Multimedia Infrastructure Group * > Eircom PLC | Internet House / Teach Idirline * > phone: +353-1-7010900 | 26-34 TempleBar / Barra an Teampaill * > mailto: lucks at indigo.ie | Dublin 2 / Baile Atha Cliath 2 * *
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