Re: your mail

[Andre Chapuis <]

Hi Leo,
another question: within 62/8, minalloc is /19 according to RIPE.
Can you please then explain me the following /20 assignment ?
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inetnum: 62.78.64.0 - 62.78.79.255 
netname: COM-CON-AG-NET 
descr: com:con AG 
country: DE 
admin-c: HD187-RIPE 
tech-c: CCAG-RIPE 
status: ASSIGNED PI 
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-PI-MNT 
mnt-lower: RIPE-NCC-HM-PI-MNT 
mnt-by: COM-CON-MNT 
mnt-routes: COM-CON-MNT 
mnt-routes: DTAG-RR 
changed: hostmaster@localhost 20020910 
changed: axel.drogoin@localhost 20020919 
source: RIPE
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Cheers,
André

At 12:34 22.02.2003 +0100, leo vegoda wrote:
>Hi André,
>
>On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:06:20AM +0100, Andre Chapuis wrote:
>> 
>> >Hi Leo,
>> I saw in the DB that several blocks within 195/8 have been registered as ALLOCATED PI last week (13.2.2003):
>
>This is part of an effort we've been making to tidy things up and
>make the whois data easier for software to interpret. We have
>registered allocations surrounding the space we have available in
>there for PI assignments.
>
>> Since we (and other ISP) filter out prefixes longer than /20 (or /19) within 195/8 (except for the ALLOCATED PI ranges), I'd like to know if this is going to happen often or if the 195/8 is now fully allocated. It would be useful in order to update the filters.
>
>This word should make 195/8 fully allocated. However, we can't
>guarantee that it will stay this way. If people return address 
>space within 195/8 to us we would "sin bin" it for a while and then
>feel free to issue it.
>
>> More generally: Out of which blocks are the PI allocations made ? And what is the minimal assignement size within them ?
>
>193/8 and 194/7. We publish the smallest sizes we issue for each /8
>(and /23) range in http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/smallest-alloc-sizes.html
>each time the IANA give us more space.
>
>> Thank you,
>> André
>> PS: I hope the issue is not off-topic...
>
>I think it's very on topic.
>
>Best regards,
>
>-- 
>leo vegoda
>RIPE NCC
>Registration Services

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