Re: [address-policy-wg] 2006-05 PI Assignment Size

[Dennis Lundström dennis@localhost]

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Well I suggest you contact the RIPE-NCC about this. There might be a  
way around this issue
Without lying thru your teeth on the 2-year application form.

If you get a green light from a hostmaster. I guess you can refer to  
that conversation to your ISP/LIR
putting in your requests.

However this is most likely NOT the correct procedure for application.

Best regards!

- --Dennis Lundström
  GippNET AB AS34537



On 18 maj 2007, at 20.14, Knight, Brian wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am writing to voice support for proposal 2006-05, which would change
> assignment criteria for end-users requesting PI addressing for  
> multihoming.
> I have recently found myself in a situation which, I believe, this  
> policy
> proposal directly addresses.  I work for an end-user organization  
> which does
> business internationally.  Though I myself am based in the US, I am  
> also
> responsible for an office in the UK.  This UK office has its own  
> established
> network that connects independently to the Internet.
>
> We ordered connectivity from a second provider with the intention of
> multihoming with both connections, only to find out that both service
> providers *require* us to obtain and use PI space in order to do  
> so.  Neither
> provider will deaggregate space from their own assigned PA ranges  
> for us to
> announce, which, in my experience, is something that US providers  
> will often
> do for their customers.
>
> Our London-based network is rather small, and it does not, by itself,
> presently meet the address usage requirements for a /24 assignment,  
> the
> longest commonly-accepted prefix size.  However, the services that  
> we provide
> over the Internet are business-critical, and they are the reason we  
> intend to
> multihome.
>
> Being that this was my first time arranging multihoming with UK  
> service
> providers, I wondered if this requirement for PI space to multihome  
> was an
> exceptional case in the provider marketplace.  But after a post to  
> the UKNOF
> mailing list, it seems that the requirement is quite commonplace.
>
> We are currently pursuing other avenues of obtaining PI addressing,  
> but had
> the proposed changes been in effect, we would be operational with both
> providers by now.  Due to providers' requirement for PI space to  
> multihome,
> the present policy unfairly restricts the end-users who may  
> multihome only to
> those that can justify the space.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Brian Knight
> Sr. Network Engineer
> Mizuho Securities USA, Futures Division
> http://www.mizuhosecurities.com/
>
> * Please note that I do not speak for my employer - only for myself.
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