Smallest RIPE NCC Allocation / Assignment Sizes	

Joćo Luis Silva Damas
Leo Vegoda
RIPE NCC 
Document ID: ripe-295 
Date: 15 October 2003

See also: ripe-256 
Obsoletes: ripe-222, ripe-242, ripe-259, ripe-264, ripe-266, ripe-269,
ripe-289

This document contains the size of the minimum and default allocations
made by the RIPE NCC to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) and End Users
from IPv4 and IPv6 CIDR blocks allocated to the RIPE NCC by the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and other registries.

"Default allocation" refers to the amount of addresses, in prefix
notation, that are allocated to LIRs by default.

"Smallest assignment" refers to the size of the smallest assignment,
in prefix notation, made by the RIPE NCC to an End User.

Allocations or Assignments smaller than the default size have been
made to users requesting Provider Independent (PI) IPv4 address space.

Small IPv6 blocks have been assigned to Internet Exchange Points
(IXPs) under the interim policy allowing this.

From October 2003, IPv4 allocations an