[70287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Corporations becoming a LIR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (leo vegoda)
Fri May 7 03:01:29 2004
In-Reply-To: <947A015D7B9AF8479BC4832D3F6B6884030684@ballmsg01.cs.ball.com>
Cc: <nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu>
From: leo vegoda <leo@ripe.net>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 09:00:22 +0200
To: "Drumm, Dan" <ddrumm@ball.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hi Dan,
On May 7, 2004, at 12:02 am, Drumm, Dan wrote:
[...]
> We now have a European division, Ball-Europe=20
> (http://www.ball-europe.com). They have RFC 1918 addressing=20
> internally, and have the usual problems with NAT and overload=20
> addressing.
>
> I=92m starting the process of filling out an application to register =
the=20
> company, based in Ratingen, DE with RIPE as a Local Internet Registry=20=
> (LIR) so that we can request a /18 (or /17 if we can get one) for the=20=
> 40 some production facilities of Ball-Europe, each of which will come=20=
> across a VPN network and be presented in one block to the ISP uplinks.
>
> I was wondering, basically, if I have any chance at this? While RIPE=20=
> clearly states the admission policy is open to any organization, in=20
> order to get PIR (Provider Independent routing) being a RIPE NCC is=20
> required, and I don=92t know if a corporation would have a shot.=20
> Currently, we are not an ARIN member, but hold the Class B.
There's no problem with you becoming and LIR and requesting address=20
space from us. Membership is open to everyone and we'll be happy to=20
help you out. If you want to discuss anything then let me know and we=20
can have a chat on the telephone.
> The corporation exists in 6 EU nations, and I can demonstrate the=20
> requirement for >2048 individual IP addresses.
In fact, the RIPE community removed the requirement to demonstrate=20
usage of existing address space when it lowered the minimum allocation=20=
to /21. We expect to update the IPv4 policy document when the two=20
policies in Last Call status have reached consensus (or not) from our=20
community.
Best regards,
--=20
leo vegoda
Registration Services Manager
RIPE NCC=
