September 2006 - address-policy-wg

2005-02 Proposal Accepted (IP Assignments for Anycasting DNS)
by Filiz Yilmaz 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

PDP Number: 2005-02 IP Assignments for Anycasting DNS Dear Colleagues, Consensus has been reached, and the proposal described in 2005-02 has been accepted by the RIPE community. You can find the full proposal at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2005-2.html Two policy documents were affected by this proposal and now are updated and published: IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region, ripe-387 http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv4-policies.html and IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy, ripe-388 http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6policy.html Thank you for your input. We also noticed an error in the previous IPv4 policy document, ripe-368. In 2004, utilisation requirements to receive a first allocation were dropped and the document was updated accordingly. However, a reference to this changed policy was overlooked in this previous update: 5.4 Sub-allocations: ... Downstream network operators efficiently using a /22 sub-allocation qualify to receive a /20 PA allocation from the RIPE NCC if they decide to become an LIR themselves. ... We also removed this out of date reference from the document in ripe-387. We apologise for any confusion. Kind regards, Filiz Yilmaz RIPE NCC Policy Development Officer

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RIPE NCC NRO Number Council Candidates Announced
by Paul Rendek 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails] Dear Colleagues, The following candidates have accepted their nomination for the vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC) from the RIPE NCC service region: * Sabine Jaume Rajaonia * Dave Wilson The term of Sabine Jaume, who was elected in January 2004, expires in December 2006. The representative appointed by the Internet community for the NRO NC seat will serve a three-year term, beginning 1 January 2007. Candidate profiles and information on how to submit an Expression of Support can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/info/resource-admin/nro2006/confirmed-nominations.html Voting will take place during the RIPE NCC Services Working Group session of the RIPE 53 Meeting in Amsterdam. This session takes place at 16:00 - 17:00 on Thursday 5 October, 2006. Note: this is a change from the previously published date. The successful candidate will be announced during this meeting. For more information about the NRO NC, nominations and the election process, see: http://www.ripe.net/info/resource-admin/nro2006/ Regards, Paul Rendek Head of Member Services & Communications RIPE NCC

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2006-05 / PI Assignment Size - brief address wastage analysis
by Nick Hilliard 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

As of yesterday, there were ~18000 ASSIGNED PI netblocks in the RIPE DB, comprising a mixture of recently assigned PI blocks, and a bunch of older network blocks from the days when RIPE used to allocate /16's without too much justification. Of these 18000 blocks, about: 850 are < /24 10285 are /24 (2.5% of ASSIGNED PI space in RIPE) 2650 are /23 1650 are /22 2550 are > /22 (94.3% of ASSIGNED PI space in RIPE) >From a cursory glance, it would appear that a bunch of these assignments are misregistered or are subregistrations of other old ASSIGNED PI blocks. Particularly notable are the NRENs and the older ISPs, which would have been allocated large blocks a long time ago. These blocks are now classified as ASSIGNED PI instead of ASSIGNED PA. Much of this IP address space is aggregated in the routing tables and does not present much cause for worry from that perspective. Given that there are only ~850 assignments < /24, it would seem reasonable to assume that 2006-05 will cause only a very marginal increase in the amount of address space used for PI announcements. Therefore there seems little reason to reject the proposal because of address space wastage. Yes, a small amount of address space will be wasted, but in the grand scheme of things, very little. Nick

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DRAFT agenda for RIPE 53 address policy WG meeting
by Gert Doering 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi APWG folks, here's a first draft of an agenda for the RIPE53 address policy meeting in Amsterdam in two weeks. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday afternoon, October 5, 2006, 14:00-15:30 local time. The overall RIPE meeting outline is available at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-53/meeting-plan.html The list of plenary presentations scheduled may become available at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-53/presentations/ (empty right now) Please send me your comments pretty quickly, as we need to hand in the agenda for printing fairly soon. Gert Doering -- APWG Co-Chair --------------------------- snip ------------------------- A. Administrative Matters - Welcome - Select a scribe - Distribute participants list - Finalise agenda - Approve minutes from RIPE 52: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/address-policy/r52-minutes.html <if you have any comments on the minutes, please let me/the list know> - point people to mailing list B. finding of a new APWG Chair / new Co-Chair(s) - Hans-Petter Holen is proposing to step down as WG chair (and become a co-chair) due to high work load / little spare time - Andrea Borgato seems to have fallen off the net --> volunteers welcome! C. ongoing/current address policy proposals in the RIPE region * 2005-02 - IP Assignments for anycasting DNS * 2005-08 - amend IPv6 assignment and utilization requirement * 2005-12 - 4-byte AS number policy * 2006-01 - Provider Independent (PI) IPv6 assigmnets for end users * 2006-02 - IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy * 2006-04 - Contact e-mail Address Requirements * 2006-05 - (IPv4) PI Assignment Size * 2006-06 - IPv4 Maximum Allocation Period (misleading title) * 2006-07 - Minimum IPv4 Assignment Window the idea is to have a presentation by Filiz Yilmaz from the RIPE NCC (thanks!) in the plenary session on Wednesday, and discussions about individual proposals in the working group session on Thursday. For the most recent policy proposals, I think it would be a good idea to have a very brief presentation from the proposer, explaining the rationale behind the proposal. D. Update on global IANA/ICANN policies * IPv6 ICANN->RIR distribution policy update E. ongoing policy work in other regions * presentation in the plenary * plus discussion time in the WG slot Z. AOB -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 88685 SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster(a)Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 D- 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-234

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ICANN Ratifies Global Policy for Allocation of IPv6 Address Space
by Axel Pawlik 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails.] Dear Colleagues, Please find below an announcement on behalf of the Number Resource Organization (NRO): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 7 September 2006, the ICANN Board ratified the Global Policy for Allocation of IPv6 Address Space. This policy provides for the allocation of IPv6 address space from ICANN to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). On 13 July 2006, the Secretary of the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) Address Council (AC) forwarded to ICANN the proposed global policy for allocation of IPv6 address space. This proposed global policy had been submitted to the ASO AC by the Executive Council of the Number Resource Organization on 6 June 2006, and adopted by the ASO AC on 12 July 2006. Each RIR community individually discussed the policy and approved its adoption via their own policy development processes. The Global Addressing Policy document is available from the ASO website at: http://aso.icann.org/docs/aso-global-ipv6.pdf The ICANN announcement is available from the ICANN website at: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-11sep06.htm nro-announce mailing list information: nro-announce(a)nro.net https://www.nro.net/nro-lists/listinfo/nro-announce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC

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Re:2006-06 New Policy Proposal (IPv4 Maximum Allocation Period)]
by Jeroen Massar 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Filiz Yilmaz wrote: > PDP Number: 2006-06 IPv4 Maximum Allocation Period The subject of this proposal sounds a *lot* like: "The maximum period that an IPv4 prefix will be allocated to the LIR" while instead is meant (what I read from the rest of the text and taunted some others with who also read it differently ;) : "The maximum period over which we will ask the LIR to foresee the future developments and requests that it will make" Thus the subject is sort of misleading, maybe a better naming would be: "2006-06 Maximum Period used in Determination of New IPv4 Allocations" but I'll leave the exact wording to be filled in by the rest of the APWG members. One extra note, in case RIPE at a certain point accepts one of the "IPv6 PI" proposals, then the above might be applicable to those too. For the rest, the proposal sounds good to me, especially in light of making policies more equal globally. Greets, Jeroen

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Urgent: NRO NC Nominations
by Paul Rendek 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

[Apologies for duplicate e-mails.] Dear Colleagues, During the process of collecting nominations for the available seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC), we experienced problems with incoming e-mail to nominations(a)ripe.net. Unfortunately, this may have resulted in the loss of some nominations and supporting e-mails. If you have sent a nomination or a supporting e-mail to nominations(a)ripe.net, please check to see if it is listed at: http://www.ripe.net/info/resource-admin/nro2006/confirmed-nominations.html ============================================================================================================================ * If you do not see your nomination or supporting e-mail on the web page mentioned above, please re-send it as soon a possible to: nominations(a)ripe.net * ============================================================================================================================ For more information about the NRO NC election process, please see: http://www.ripe.net/info/resource-admin/nro2006/ We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Kind regards, Paul Rendek Head of Member Services & Communications RIPE NCC

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