[1539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vab Goel)
Fri Jan 26 00:02:14 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 23:46:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Vab Goel <vgoel@sprint.net>
To: postel@isi.edu
cc: nanog@merit.edu, cidrd@IEPG.ORG, iepg@IEPG.ORG, iab@isi.edu, iesg@isi.edu,
iana@isi.edu, netreg@internic.net, ncc@ripe.net, hostmaster@apnic.net
In-Reply-To: <199601242346.AA20736@zen.isi.edu>
IANA
>Regional Internet Registries (APNIC, InterNIC, RIPE NCC) refer
>organizations requesting IP address space to their Internet service
>providers (ISPs)
Can you please define a policy for a provider who have global backbone,
which Registry should they contact for IP address space..
Vab..
On Wed, 24 Jan 1996 postel@ISI.EDU wrote:
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> Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
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> Regional Internet Registries (APNIC, InterNIC, RIPE NCC) refer
> organizations requesting IP address space to their Internet service
> providers (ISPs). This is done for various reasons, the main reason
> being that IP addresses need to be assigned heirarchically to allow
> aggregation of routing information (CIDR). Customers are warned of
> possible routing restrictions if addresses are not received from an
> ISP's CIDR block. Since some ISPs are presently restricting the length
> of prefixes they route, it is even more important for end users to
> receive IP addresses from their Internet service provider.
>
> Regional Internet registries have no control over the routing policies
> of any ISP. The IANA has instructed the Internet registries not to
> assign IP addresses based on any ISP's particular routing policy, rather
> on specific criteria including utilization efficiency. An organization
> will be assigned the number of IP addresses it can justify. If this
> number is not fully routable, that is an issue that should be taken up
> with the ISP(s) concerned.
>
> Regional Internet Registries inform ISPs about allocation and assignment
> policies. This enables ISPs to take these policies into account when
> setting their routing policies.
>
> s/ IANA, Internic, RIPE-NCC, AP-NIC.
>
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