At 19:12 2009.07.25.ΓΏ, you wrote:
The result of this is that -- according to the prefixlen stats for PI assignments provided by the NCC which indicate that hardly anyone applies for < /24, and that the vast majority of assignments are for exactly /24 -- people are quite clearly making a wholesale mockery of the address assignment RIPE policies by consistently and wholeheartedly lying though their teeth on their application forms.
This is, in my opinion, a much worse situation than compromising on a minimum assignment size of /24.
I also note that most of the people complaining about proposal work with large organisations which are unaffected by the restrictions and workarounds that that 2006-05 attempts to solve.
Nick
Very wise words. You can only see how fast "large organization friendly" proposals go through and are accepted - this is just my personal view :) See the multiple /24 allocations for cTLDs that just got accepted. For multi-homing purposes and if your infrastructure allows it - you can easily get /24 ARIN ip space allocated from your US provider. However, to comply with Arin IP v4 rules you can only get one such block (/24 per company). We have worked with multiple clients (from Europe) and it works like a charm. We went this route because I don't think anything will change in the future (and thanks God we did it - it's been 2 years+ and nothing have changed). Greg http://www.linuxadmin.org/