Dear colleagues,

RIPE policy proposal 2023-01, "Reducing IXP IPv4 assignment default size to a /26" is now available for discussion again.

The goal of this proposal is to reduce the default size of IPv4 assignments for IXPs from a /24 to /26 and clarifies the return of the assignments previously issued for their IXP peering LAN.

Following the last round of discussion, this proposal has been updated and it is now at version 2.0.
The main difference from version 1.0 is that IXPs are not required to implement the exchange of IPv4 routing information over IPv6 before requesting an assignment larger than a /24.

You can find the full proposal at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2023-01

As per the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP), the purpose of this four-week Discussion Phase is to discuss the proposal and provide feedback to the proposer.

At the end of the Discussion Phase, the proposers, with the agreement of the WG Chairs, will decide how to proceed with the proposal.

The PDP document can be found at:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-781

We encourage you to review this proposal and send your comments to
address-policy-wg@ripe.net before 4 April 2023.


Kind regards,

Angela Dall'Ara
Policy Officer
RIPE NCC