Re: [address-policy-wg] IPv4 assignment to resident user

[Gert Doering <]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:56:51AM +0100, Jaka Erjavec wrote:
> I was searching www.ripe.net website for a document where it says that
> IPv4 block can NOT be allocated to resident user (not company).
> 
> Can you, guys, please point me to appropriate url?

First of all, a clarification:

 * "allocated" means "given to a registry".  An "allocation" is never given
   to an end user (be it a company or a resident user).  What a local registry
   (LIR) gets from RIPE is an "allocation".

 * Address blocks given to "end users" (of all sorts) are "assignments".

Then, to answer your question: there is no document that says "resident
users must not receive an IP address assignment".  The reason for that
is: it is perfectly *valid* to give static IP address assignments to
end users - provided they provide appropriate documentation that they
will use it.  

If a residential customer has 10 devices at home that all can speak IP, it 
is *perfectly fine* (!!) to assign a /28 network to this customer.

RIPE does *not* mandate dynamic addressing or NAT.  (But it is expected
that you think about it, before making a decision pro or contra NAT).

Gert Doering
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