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anyone here requested IP space from RIPE?

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oddyager

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We're building out a new colo site in London (we will be opening a new office over there) and I want to request 2x /24s our own IP space and could use a little hand holding. 🙂 the request forms are somewhat different than the ones from ARIN. For example reach request from RIPE requires x-ncc-regid which I don't believe we have with RIPE and there's nothing on the site that I could see where you can request one. Does anyone know how?
 
It's been a long time, but in the past at least RIPE folks were incredibly competent and helpful. Send them an email or give them a call - they should be able to walk you through the process if you have a legitimate need and can provide all the documentation to justify it.

I believe that the smallest RIPE can allocate you is a /21, not a /23. If all you can justify is a /23 you will probably be required to get it from an upstream.
 
heymrdj said:
His part about colo pretty much answers that. ^_^
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Right. 😀

Thanks, cmetz. I did shoot off an email to them. Wasn't sure if they would go any smaller since I've been reading their IPv4 exhaustion will probably be middle of this year or closer to end of year.
 
You have to buy them now. you cannot get any less than a routable chunk of /21 and it will cost you A LOT of money.

It's a commodity now, that is why nobody is pushing ipv6 because we can now sell that which was free before (IP's). So that B/class you have been sitting on is worth more than the hosting company and all of its revenues.
 
If you already have your own provider independent block, are you able to carve out a smaller block just for this COLO?
Just in case the request doesn't go through for whatever reason, you can at least have another option.
 
Cooky, many European ISPs won't allow you (in their filters) to announce ARIN-region address blocks on their RIPE-region circuits, forcing you to get other space from RIPE. Yes, this wastes address space. Yes, that waste is exactly the problem ARIN and RIPE theoretically exist to reduce.
 
You can advertise ARIN space. I do it now. But the issue you could run into could be some site may block or restrict what you can do as you'd be seen from an ARIN address.

You can get less than a /21. You need to be the right kind of member. I'm currently setup as a direct access user, but the issue there is that you need to justify the number of IPs you're requesting. Even though no ISPs will accept or re-advertise anything less than a /24, it's not as easy as that. Best bet, if your company will pay for it, is become an LIR. Much easier to request space. But it depends on how large your organization is.

If you need provider independant addressing, that's one thing. Your best bet may be to simply ask the ISP to give you something on the assumption you're in a long term contract with them.

They're somewhere within the last 2 /8s (1.69 as of the 23rd). Once that's reached, it's pretty much game over.
 
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