[20654] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is ripe allocating /24's?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edvard Tuinder)
Tue Oct 20 05:35:38 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:00:42 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Edvard Tuinder <ed@cistron.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <981019182534.14673@SDG.DRA.COM>
On .nanog you wrote:
>A provider has made the claim to me that RIPE is allocating /24's
>addresses to various European providers. Is this true? What affect
>does this have on providers with prefix-length filters?
>
>Or is this provider just mis-reading the RIPE allocation database.
I think he is misreading the allocation database. The minimum allocation
size used to be /19 and will become (or is) /20 to facilitate smaller
providers. A /24 will not be allocated.
What may be the case is that when you get *assigned* a /19, you're not
allowed to use it without RIPE's knowledge. During your first own assignements,
you'll have to ask RIPE for approval. But that does _not_ imply that you're
not allowed to announce the full block (which is even specifically noted
in the doc's, it's just that you're not allowed ot _use_ (or re-assign)
anything.
-Ed
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Edvard Tuinder
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