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ripe-510: ripe-555: This document details the address space managed by the RIPE NCC and the longest prefixes allocated or assigned issued from different address ranges.

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This document details the address space managed by the RIPE NCC and the longest prefixes allocated or assigned issued from different address ranges.

A list All IPv4 and IPv6 address space managed by the RIPE NCC and the current status of all IPv4 and IPv6 address space allocated to the RIPE NCC by the IANA is available as a delete:  route-set delete:  object in the RIPE Database. delete:  delete:  It each address range can be found on the RIPE NCC website at: delete:   delete: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/whois?-rTroute-set+RS-IP-ALLOCATIONS-TO-RIPE-NCC-FROM-IANA"> http://www.ripe.net/whois?-rTroute-set+RS-IP-ALLOCATIONS-TO-RIPE-NCC-FROM-IANA delete: </a> delete:  delete:  A whois client can get it with the following command: delete:   delete: <tt> $ whois -h whois.ripe.net ' -rTrs RS-IP-ALLOCATIONS-TO-RIPE-NCC-FROM-IANA ' delete: </tt> delete:  delete: <h2> delete: <a name="2"> in the extended statistics file published daily at the URL below: insert: 

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Policy proposal 2006-01 was accepted in April 2009 and allowed the RIPE NCC to assign The RIPE NCC assigns IPv6 Provider Independent (PI) prefixes. prefixes in accordance with the insert: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6-policies.html#IPv6_PI_Assignments"> IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy insert: </a> . The IPv6 PI assignments smaller than a /32 are taken from 2001:678::/29.

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The following table shows longest prefixes allocated or smallest prefix assigned by the RIPE NCC for each listed range. delete:  delete: <table class="grid listing"> delete: <tbody> delete: <tr> delete: <td> delete:  delete:  from any IPv4 Range delete:  delete:  delete: </td> delete: <td> delete:  delete:  Longest Prefix delete:  delete:  delete: </td> delete: </tr> delete: <tr> delete: <td> delete:  2/8 delete:  delete: </td> delete: <td> delete:  /21 delete:  delete: </td> delete: </tr> delete: <tr> delete: <td> delete:  5/8 delete:  delete: </td> delete: <td> delete:  /21 delete:  delete: </td> delete: </tr> delete: <tr> delete: <td> delete:  24/8 delete: <a class="anchor-link" href="#foot1"> delete:  i delete:  delete: </a> delete:  delete: </td> delete: <td> delete:  /29 delete:  delete: </td> delete: </tr> delete: <tr> delete: <td> delete:  31/8 delete:  delete: </td> delete: <td> delete:  /21 delete:  delete: </td> delete: </tr> delete: <tr> delete: <td> delete:  37/8 delete:  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