On 14 September 2012 11:54, Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org> wrote: > On 14/09/2012 11:50, Nat Morris wrote: >> The RIPE hostmaster would only allocate us address space 7 days before >> the event started, needed longer than this to begin building out the >> network which span multiple data centres. Especially with time, access >> and change freeze constraints due to the Olympics this year. They >> didn't seem to want to budge on this, easier in my opinion to borrow >> some off a friendly organisation or ISP than jump hoops with RIPE. > > I'm in the process of trying to get this changed. To be completely fair on > the RIPE NCC, they don't have flexibility on this issue - the original > policy was broken.
This is good news Nick :) I have spoken to others in the past few weeks who were hoping to raise it at the next RIPE meeting. I am happy to share our ticket details with you off list if it'll help. -- Nat http://natmorris.co.uk http://twitter.com/natmorris