One question about RIPE

Hi Andreas, 

I'll try to shed some light on this. 

First of all. There are no forms needed for routing addresses. 

Only if you are *requesting addresses* on behalf of your customer you 
need to fill
in the IP request form at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/iprequestform.html

Your routing decisions do not fall under RIPE NCC's responsibility. 
There are some recommendations however that can be found in the 
current Policy Document:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ir-policies-procedures.html

Recommendations specific to Provider Independent (PI) and Provider 
Aggregatable (PA) address space are outlined in RIPE-127:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/pi-pa.html

In short, a PA Assignment is a range within a larger aggregate (a PA 
Allocation). A PI Assignment is an address range separately assigned 
to an end-user.

If the customer has Provider Independent address space, it is your 
decision whether you want to route the addresses.

As for PA Address space, ISPs are recommended to make contractual 
agreements with their customers, clarifying that the customers are 
required to renumber, should they change providers. Respecting these 
agreements, another ISP should naturally not accept to announce their 
PA address range separately to the Internet.

However, it is also possible to multi-home by having a PA address 
range announced through two providers. If the PA addresses come from 
ISP A's allocation, the customer would have to agree with ISP B to 
announce that range separately. ISP A would also have to announce the 
range as a more specific route together with their aggregate.

I hope this clarified the issue.

If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to write to 
<lir-help at ripe.net>.

Kind regards,

Nurani


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| Nurani Nimpuno                     |
| Internet Address Policy Manager    |
| RIPE Network Co-ordination Centre  |
| http://www.ripe.net                |
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 "Roehling, Andreas" <Andreas.Roehling at lambdanet.net> writes:
 * Hello,
 * 
 * We have a customer that has got a range of IP addresses from one 
Provider
 * (say X) and he now would like to use these addresses via our 
network.
 * 
 * Our sales representatives say it is possible to do
 * it
 * 1) If Provider X is OK
 * 2) If we have got the agreement from RIPE
 * 
 * Is it correct ?
 * 
 * Would you know which RIPE's form would be used then?
 * 
 * Thanks
 * 
 * Andreas
 * 
 *