erik,
I think that the time for the temp assignment to be made, stretched to 1 year or more, will become an issue for the NCC to work with.
the current policy allows the ncc to go up to a year
Not only of the point that Gert made, but also because it will make the life of the IPRA's must harder with the time that we add..
actually, it is the reg folk who raised these issues to me
As we can also expect more requests to be made, if the policy would be changed ...
this statement might benefit from some explanation
As this is for research .. have you considered working with other research networks that hold large amount of numbers because they were NIR's before RIPE was setup ?
i can not speak for other researchers. but when my work can be done with existing allocations we use them, of course. we have done this a lot. in the particular case i hit, the nature of the experiment required space directly delegated from the ncc. randy