[156300] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big Temporary Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nat Morris)
Fri Sep 14 06:56:34 2012
In-Reply-To: <50530CDB.8020705@foobar.org>
From: Nat Morris <nat@nuqe.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:55:24 +0100
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 14 September 2012 11:54, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 14/09/2012 11:50, Nat Morris wrote:
>> The RIPE hostmaster would only allocate us address space 7 days before
>> the event started, needed longer than this to begin building out the
>> network which span multiple data centres. Especially with time, access
>> and change freeze constraints due to the Olympics this year. They
>> didn't seem to want to budge on this, easier in my opinion to borrow
>> some off a friendly organisation or ISP than jump hoops with RIPE.
>
> I'm in the process of trying to get this changed. To be completely fair on
> the RIPE NCC, they don't have flexibility on this issue - the original
> policy was broken.
This is good news Nick :)
I have spoken to others in the past few weeks who were hoping to raise
it at the next RIPE meeting. I am happy to share our ticket details
with you off list if it'll help.
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Nat
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