Dear apWG members,
I'm not convinced that we should "today", provide IPv4 temporary assignments, neither for conferences or experiments.
A conference can perfectly survive today with a single IPv4 public address (or very few of them) from the ISP providing the link (even if running BGP), using 464XLAT, so the participants get dual-stack in the same way they are used to (private IPv4 addresses) and they also have global IPv6 addresses.
This can be made with pure open source in a VM (if the provider doesn't have a NAT64, it can be also in the VM, in addition to the CLAT support, both using Jool, or other choices), etc. It is very well proven.
Now, regarding to experiments, I don't think we should keep doing IPv4 experiments anymore and in the case it is really needed, I think it should be possible to obtain the required addresses from the DCs where the experiment will be co-located.
So, in short, I think if work is done, it makes more sense to send this policy to "historic", at least deprecating the IPv4 part.
"
For longer term projects and research purposes, the number resources may be issued on a temporary basis for a period of up to six calendar months, or one month longer than the expected life of the project/research/experiment, whichever is shorter.
In the case where an End User requires number resources for research purposes, and where the research project details are made public upon registration of the number resources by the RIPE NCC, and where the End User commits to making public the results of their research project free of charge and free from disclosure constraints, then the requested number resources may be issued for a period of up to one calendar year.
At the RIPE NCC's discretion renewal of the registration of the resources may be possible in exceptional circumstances on receipt of a new request that details continuation of the End User's requirements during the extended period. Should this request be denied by the RIPE NCC, an appeal may be made using the RIPE NCC Conflict Arbitration "
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-587#:~:text=For%20longer%20term,NCC%20Conflict%20Arbitration
I'm happy to work on that with a proposal, which seems to be very simple to do.
Regards,
Jordi
@jordipalet
El 27/1/22 15:45, "address-policy-wg en nombre de Angela Dall'Ara" <address-policy-wg-bounces@ripe.net en nombre de adallara@ripe.net> escribió:
Hi Gert, Randy and Leo,
Thank you for dedicating attention and time to ripe-587, as this policy
became more topical since the IPv4 run-out.
The requests for temporary assignments are always evaluated by the RIPE
NCC on a case-by-case basis, and the current text of the policy presents
some challenging aspects for the approval.
Requests related to conferences and events generally include a
documentation that can easily show the utilisation of the addresses and
the time of the assignment. Sometimes there is some time pressure due to
last-minute submissions and there were few occasions when organisers
would have preferred more than the policy limit of two months, but
overall this part of the policy is sufficiently clear for the RIPE NCC.
The requests for research and testing are posing challenges for the
approval against the required address utilisation (50%) stated in the
policy, when this cannot be reached due to the nature of the
research/experiment/test.
We also receive requests where the temporary assignment purpose appears
to be part of a standard network setup as the test/experiment/research
is motivated with the need of configuring and testing a protocol or a
feature that is new to the requester's network while being already
widely used in other ones. Many of these requests come from the
requester's interpretation of the policy.
While the policy cannot cover all cases, a review of the technical
requirements, time limits and address utilisation would be beneficial to
facilitate the RIPE NCC’s assessment of different requests.
Kind regards,
Angela
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Angela Dall'Ara
RIPE NCC Policy Officer
On 26/01/2022 18:32, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> [...]
>
Best Regards !
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