REMINDER: RIPE NCC ADDRESS POLICY CHANGE

POLICY CHANGE REMINDER
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During the RIPE 36 meeting in Budapest (16-19 May 2000) the LIR 
working group agreed upon the following policy change:

AS OF THE 1ST OF AUGUST 2000,
THE RIPE NCC WILL LOWER THE MINIMUM ALLOCATION SIZE FROM A /19 TO A 
/20.


Allocations of the size /20, will initially be issued from CIDR block 
217/8.

If you use prefix based filtering in your routers, please note 
this change.

The Minimum Allocation Size does not constrain requests for address 
space that
can justify larger blocks of addresses.


For further information regarding sizes of allocations made by the 
RIPE NCC, please refer to the following RIPE document: ripe-211 - 
"Size of smallest allocations in CIDR blocks allocated by the RIPE 
NCC".

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-211.html


Best regards,

Nurani Nimpuno
Registration Services Manager
RIPE NCC