Summary: Fixed Boundary (/29) Assignments

 Bruno Ciscato <bciscato at cisco.com> writes:
 * At 11:04 16/02/2001 +0100, Mirjam Kuehne wrote:
 * 
 * >The comments showed concerns about the administrative procedures
 * >required for these kinds of assignments. However, it was felt that
 * >these addresses need to be accounted for in some way. A possible way
 * >forward would be to initiate discussion surrounding the set of
 * >information necessary to justify these assignments while providing an
 * >efficient way for the LIRs to provide services to their customers.
 * 
 * 
 * What is the set of information necessary to justify these assignments ?
 * Does a big ISP have to justify in advance and for each residential customer 
 * (10s a day) that the customer will use one address for the PC, one for the 
 * oven, one for the security webcam, and so on and so forth?
 * Is there any other way that may make the process more efficient ?
 *
 * thanks a lot
 * 
 * bruno
 * 

The LIR Working Group agreed that fixed Boundary (/29) Assignments should not
be assigned to every customer by default as this implies a waste of addresses.
However, LIRs are free to offer fixed boundary (/29) assignment to customers 
who request it. These assignments have to be based on need. The LIR has
to justify all addresses in these networks to RIPE NCC with a list of the 
devices that will use these addresses, just like any other assignment.

Regarding assignments for cable/xdsl customers:
Initial assignment requests for cable and xDSL are usually judged on the
basis of availability of the hardware. If an LIR has the hardware
necessary for the first assignment then this is considered to be
sufficient justification. Later assignment requests can use the same
method, although it is then also possible to justify more addresses by
showing the growth in customer base (sometimes bandwidth statistics are
added as well to show the latest increases).

For further details please write to <hostmaster at ripe.net> including the
ticket number of your ongoing request, or contact <lir-help at ripe.net>.  


Kind regards,

Sabrina Waschke

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