ISOC-IL Policy on IP Address Allocation in Israel

September 2000

In the past (May 1997-May 1998) ISOC-IL had been providing the service of allocating portable IP addresses to ISPs in Israel. When ISOC-IL inherited the IP address allocation procedures from Machba/IUCC in 1997 (which allocated IP addresses to companies and ISPs in Israel since 1992) it found that RIPE (the organization that grants IP addresses for Europe, Africa and the Middle East), had evolved to the point where all ISPs in Europe now receive their IP addresses directly from RIPE.

Therefore, we recommended, starting in June 1998, that all ISPs (whether licensed or not) that wished to continue to receive portable IP addresses to start reading the documentation located at "Guidelines for Setting up a Local Internet Registry".

As of June 1, 1998 ISOC-IL has no longer been allocating IP addresses for ISPs in Israel.

The following supplemental documentation can be found at the RIPE Document Store

RIPE-127: Provider Independent vs Provider Aggregatable Address Space
RIPE-141: European IP Address Space Request Form
RIPE-142: Supporting Notes for the European IP Address Space Request Form
RIPE-147: European Autonomous System Number Application Form and Supporting Notes
RIPE-154: RIPE NCC Local IR Training Policies
RIPE-157: RIPE NCC Database Documentation
RIPE-170: RIPE NCC Consistency & Auditing Activity
RIPE-172: The Standard RIPE NCC Service Agreement
RIPE-181: Representation of IP Routing Policies in a Routing Registry
RIPE-183: RIPE NCC Request Tracking and Ticketing
RIPE-185: European Internet Registry Policies and Procedures
RIPE-189: RIPE NCC Database Documentation (update for ver. 2.2.1)

There are courses given by RIPE for new registries to get up to speed. The schedule of upcoming courses can be found at RIPE. It is highly recommended for all ISPs in Israel to take an upcoming course on this matter.

RIPE-188 ("RIPE NCC Billing Procedure and Fee Schedule") details the costs involved: for small ISPs it is 2650ECU/yr plus a one-time 2100ECU fee during your first year of working with RIPE. Israeli ISPs that are already members of RIPE and that receive their IP nets directly from RIPE are: Barak, Internet Zahav, GoldenLines, ISDNnet, Netvision and others.

ISOC-IL will continue to allocate ASN's and /22s for multi-homed, non-ISP companies on a best effort basis.

The application form and rules are available for printing.

The IP address Allocation Rules

Note: The following rules no longer apply since June 1998 and are merely left here for historical reasons as reference.

1. 1. ISOC-IL owns 5 blocks of addresses:
   192.114.0.0/16
   192.115.0.0/16
   192.116.0.0/16
   192.117.0.0/16
   192.118.0.0/16
2. Only ISPs with a valid Internet operating license from the Ministry of Communications are able to receive blocks of IP addresses from the 5 blocks listed above.
3. Any new ISP will be given a /22 (4 old style Class C nets).
4. An ISP has to demonstrate at least 50% address utilization before given the next allocation.
5. ISOC-IL follows the European model for IP (RIPE) which calls for slow start allocation. This means that subsequent allocations that are given to ISPs are double the size of the previous allocation. This means that an ISP given a /22 would next get a /21 (a block of 8 Class C's), and an ISP that received a /21 would get a /20, and so on. An ISP can decline the jump to the next level and continue to receive IP addresses based on the size of their current allocation size.
6. ISOC-IL is only able to reserve an address block of /17 in size (128 Class C's) for any one ISP.
7. If all address space has been reserved (as stated in #1) and there is a request for more IP addresses, then ISOC-IL will de-reserve address space in order to allocate it to the new ISP.
8. The cost per /24 is $50 one time fee for registration purposes.
9. IP addresses assigned to ISPs are non-transferrable. If a customer leaves an ISP, then the IP address that was assigned to that customer by the ISP returns to the ISP. It remains for the customer and the existing ISP to determine for what period of time the customer can use the old IP addresses during their migration to a new ISP. Under no circumstances should that period exceed 3 months.
10. An ISP who has gone bankrupt will have all previously assigned IP addresses revert to ISOC-IL after a 2 month transitional period.
11. ISPs who receive blocks of addresses are to announce them to the Internet as blocks and not as individual /24s. Announcing them as individual /24s increases the size of the global Internet routing table, and very well may be blocked by the larger ISPs (such as Sprint or MCI) in the very near future.
12. Individual organizations may not receive private IP addresses (portable) unless they are multihomed. Multihomed means that they are permanently connected to at least 2 ISPs and exchange routing information via BGP.
13. Organizations who receive portable IP addresses due to being multihomed, and who cease to be multihomed, must return the portable IP addresses to ISOC-IL and renumber their systems to use IP addresses as assigned by their ISP. This must take place within 2 months of the termination of being multihomed.
14. Organizations who previously received IP addresses (Class C's) without being connected to the Internet may use those addresses only internally. When connecting to the Internet, those organizations must renumber to use IP addresses as assigned by their ISP. The one exception is an organization that has received at least a /22 or larger allocation of IP address space, in which case the block of addresses will be marked as private and portable.
15. All government agencies that previously received Class C (/24) nets cannot apply item #14 since the entire Israeli government was allocated a class B (/16) network in exchange for all previously allocated Class C networks.

Recent IP address allocations (July 1997-present)

The current ruleset is managed by the Internet Society of Israel Board and one can appeal any decision by sending email to the Board of ISOC-IL.

• This page is maintained by Hank Nussbacher (hank@isoc.org.il)
• Last modified on Tues Aug 8, 2007