3 Aug
2022
3 Aug
'22
8:26 a.m.
Hi All,
Just to answer some of the questions and concerns regarding BGP announcements…
New requests for BGP announcements are going into 44.31/16 and yes, this is to replace
44.190/16
If anyone is willing to renumber into this range then that would be great and I am very
happy to work with you to provide a new assignment with an overlap of whatever period you
feel you need to complete the renumbering process. Please email me direct: chris(a)ardc.net
<mailto:chris@ardc.net> to discuss.
As the license period for BGP assignments last for 5 years, I am asking folk to renumber
when their current licence runs out, but again an overlap period is perfectly ok.
More generally, if you do currently have a BGP assignment, please do check when it was
first issued so your licence/LOA can be renewed in good time, I am happy to renew LOA’s
anytime in the last 12 months of their active period.
I would also like to remind everyone that you do need to login to the portal on a regular
basis in order to keep your assignments. The system currently sends reminder emails out at
6 months, 9 months and 12 months. The wording of these emails get ever increasingly more
“urgent”. If you login at least once every 6 months you will never be sent a reminder
email.
At 15 months (of no login from you) your account is removed and any resources (address
assignments, gateways) are removed. The only exception to this, is if you are a
coordinator for a country or regional allocation, in which case your account is still
removed, but the allocation is re-assigned to a special admin account that can’t be
deleted. i.e. only “User” networks are ever removed.
I have been asked many times why we do this, the answer is that it’s the only way we have
of keeping the portal at anything like up to date. The idea was originally Brian
Kantor's, prior to the portal he had assignments on his spreadsheet for folks that had
gone SK or just lost interest and stopped using the addresses. Unlike a commercial
organisation, where if you stop paying for your resources they get taken away, we have no
other way of knowing if someone has gone SK or just lost interest and moved on.
73,
Chris - G1FEF