Choose the registry relationship
Direct RIPE NCC Membership or a Sponsoring LIR?
The real difference is who owns the registry relationship: the account, the fees, the policy contact, and the day-to-day administration.
Read the decision guideSKNK Field Notes · Look at responsibility first
Choose a Network Model by Who Owns What
The choice is broken into facts you can check: who manages the resource, who runs BGP, and what survives — or restarts — when a relationship ends. Three guides, three common decisions.
Start with the decision in front of you
Three responsibilities people mix up — separated for you.
Pick the guide closest to your situation, then compare responsibilities and the questions still worth asking.
Choose an address-resource lifecycle
IPv6 PA or PI? Start with Lifecycle, Not Prefix Size
PA (Provider Aggregatable) and PI (Provider Independent) differ in who administers the prefix, who holds the authorisation, and what happens when you change providers. Lifecycle is the real topic; price comes later.
Read the decision guideChoose who owns routing operations
Run Your Own ASN or Use Provider-Managed Routing?
This is a decision about operational ownership: who controls the routing identity, who configures BGP, who takes incidents, and who carries the dependencies when the network changes.
Read the decision guideAfter reading, confirm
Price is one condition; responsibility and lifecycle decide whether a model works over time.
Policy, contract, and upstream conditions come from the relevant parties; this comparison exists to list the questions before you apply or deploy.
Suggested order
- 1.Write down the routing capability you actually need.
- 2.Then confirm what happens to the resource when the relationship ends.
- 3.Finally, confirm contract and filtering conditions with the relevant party.