first allocation

Hi,

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:56:44PM +0200, Hoffmann, Jens wrote:
> we are LIR since May 2000.
> 
> At this time we received a /19 allocation. It seems to be a question 
> of general availability situation in the moment of registration.

Please don't start such kind of rumors.

Policies are made and decided upon by the RIPE community, and *executed*
by the RIPE NCC hostmasters.

There are certain rules, and they are documented (even if the docs are
sometimes hiding).  There is no random element, and there is no 
"availability" thing - this isn't communism.  As long as there is 
IPv4 space left, the same rules apply to everybody.

When you got your allocation, which was in 2000, the /19 was the minimum
allocation size.  This was changed in 2001.

Gert Doering
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