Fixed Boundary (/29) Assignments

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Randy Bush wrote:

> > To be concrete, what kind of justification do you require from a customer
> > requireing a /29 ?
> > Forms to be filled in ?
> > Bills of equipment ?
>
> a form modeled after the old ripe form

... or possibly "a document similar in spirit to the old ripe form". i.e.
"justify thyself here". No other similarities need be implied. Imagine the
joy of the support desk fielding "hey... what is a relative subnet
offset?" a few thousand times.

Note also that it is not sane to have a single English-language form for
European/Middle Eastern/North African residential users.

One ends up with a few simple, localised questions:

* Name
* Address
* Customer ID
* Do you have address space from any other ISP?
* Number of interfaces to connect within 6 months.

What else would you want for residential customers?

Decide quick, WG... otherwise (based on experience) the telcos will just
go and do their own random thing.

my 4c (consultancy rate)

joshua