[ncc-services-wg] RIPE request forms

Dear Harvard,

Thank you for your email.

We were mindful that people might be using the request forms as
references. During the planning process, we were concerned that some
transparency would be lost if this information was only available to
members through the LIR Portal (as well as usability issues if people
had to go through the forms to find what information was needed).

This is why we published all of this information on a new page, which
you can find here:
https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/resource-management/supporting-notes-for-internet-address-space-request-forms

The archived request forms are a bit harder to find. This is partly by
design, as we will stop accepting email requests from the end of May
2015. Also, as these forms are no longer supported by the RIPE NCC, they
will become increasingly out of date as policies change. Please refer to
the above document to find these requirements from now on. We’ve added a
link to this from the Requests Forms & Supporting Notes page, to help
people to find it better.

Kind regards

Ingrid Wijte
Registration Services Assistant Manager
RIPE NCC


On 04/03/15 09:52, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it seems that all the textual request forms we earlier used to
> interact with the e-mail based request handling service at the RIPE
> NCC has now been made much harder to find at the RIPE NCC web site.
> The underlying assumption seems to be that since the e-mail
> interaction with the RIPE NCC is now obsoleted, the only use for these
> forms has ceased to exist, so the documents have been made obsolete
> and can now only be found by searching.  Finding the newest version of
> each of the individual request forms requires even more tedious work.
> 
> This overlooks the fact that these documents are also very convenient
> one-piece collections of "this is the information we as a LIR require
> from you as an applicant to complete the application process for some
> resource with the RIPE NCC".  Instead, me acting as a LIR is left with
> the LIR portal piecemal doling out the individual questions it wants
> answers to in multiple interaction steps, where each of the steps
> potentially require another interaction with the applicant.
> 
> Am I alone in finding this to be frustrating?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> - Håvard
> 
>