[6bone] pTLA request NDSOFTWARE - review closes 23 October 2002

[Arien Vijn]

On 21-10-2002 10:27AM, "Pim van Pelt" <pim@ipng.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:21:33AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> | On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:14:45PM +0200,
> |  Pim van Pelt <pim@ipng.nl> wrote
> |  a message of 76 lines which said:
> | 
> | > Last month, I saw a small thread on the lir-wg@ripe.net mailinglist,
> | > where Nicolas complained in this public forum about the fact that the
> | > NCC did not grant him an AS number request.
> | 
> | RIPE-NCC gave a stupid reply ("you do not need an AS number for IPv6")
> | and fixed the mistake afterwards with apologies. In that case, it was
> | not Nicolas' fault.
> Stephane,
> 
> To be frank: the answer was not stupid, nor was there a need to
> appologise for it. To run IPv6, one does not need an AS number. One
> needs a machine which supports the protocol.
> 

True, but this is not the initial response from the NCC. Which was:

"Thank you for your request for an AS number, with IPv6 you do not need to
use any AS numbers nor route objects."

And that is a slightly inaccurate statement isn't it?


Anyway I was rather surprised that Mr Deffayet got his AS number that fast
after all. But let's trust the NCC decided on the merits of the request they
got via his LIR. 

Arien

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Arien Vijn
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