Hi Joao, Joao Luis Silva Damas <joao@psg.com> wrote:
Leo,
thanks for the numbers. How about the rest of the information requested?
You wanted some information on the background, types of PI requests and other things. We don't keep statistics on the motivation for a request for PI address space. In fact, we don't ask for it in most cases. We just make sure that the requester is aware of the issues that come with small blocks of address space and any possible alternatives to PI address space. However, we do keep statistics on the stated use the address space will be put to. However, the majority of PI assignments we make will be used for more than one purpose. In these cases it is often impossible to label an assignment with a single category. Instead, we label it as "Miscellaneous". This year, the "Miscellaneous" category has been appropriate in about 69% of assignments. Another 19% were for office LANs. We also had 4% used for server hosting, 3% for broadband services, about 1% for P2P links and about 1% for GPRS services. [...]
89% of the requests seems to be an indication of a need for this type of assignments, yet there seems to be "some support" to end it.
Can we have a look at the arguments that were discussed about this subject?
I asked the PI Task Force whether it might be better to just publish an archive of the discussion on the web site. There was no object and so I have asked our Ops people to put it up later today. It will be available from: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/about/maillists.html Regards, -- leo vegoda RIPE NCC Registration Services Manager