Good afternoon from AS3303 (Swisscom/IP-Plus).
This e-mail is intended as help information for those of you who operate IPv4 PI addresses within the following ranges:
193.5.0.0/16 193.134.0.0/15 193.246.0.0/15
for historical reasons, these ranges used to have a status of ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED in the RIPE data base and were managed by the ch.unisource LIR (ourselves).
In 2016 the RIPE-NCC has received a mandate from the RIPE Address Policy working group to transfer these addresses into standard ALLOCATED PA and ALLOCATED PI addresses, managed by the RIPE-NCC; if interested in the details, please see
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/address-policy-wg/2016-October/01182...
The transfer of these three ranges has been completed recently. This includes the management responsibility of the related PI assignments, although, for practical reasons, the Swisscom maintainer CH-UNISOURCE-MNT has not been removed from some objects yet.
Please find enclosed below the guidelines we received from the RIPE-NCC with respect to the administration of the related RIPE data base objects.
Thanks for your attention and understanding,
Paolo Moroni IP-Plus Engineering ch.unisource -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Following the re-organisation of ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED addresses blocks formerly managed by CH-UNISOURCE-MNT, the management of the PI assignments has been transferred to the RIPE-NCC. Each PI assignment will need to have a "Sponsoring LIR" (a RIPE NCC member responsible for maintenance, accuracy and communication with regards to a specific assignment). Please see http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-637#20 for details. Please contact your Sponsoring LIR if you have one. If not, please contact RIPE NCC, ncc@ripe.net