Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that we have implemented policy proposal 2015-03, "Assessment Criteria for IPv6 Initial Allocation Size". In accordance with the new policy, the criteria used to evaluate the size of an initial IPv6 allocations has been expanded to include: - Hierarchical and geographical structuring of the organisation - Planned longevity of the allocation - Segmentation of infrastructure for security You can find more information about the expanded evaluation criteria here: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv6/request-ipv6/assessment-criter... The archived policy proposal can be found here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2015-03 The RIPE Document, "IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy", is available here: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-655 Kind regards, Matt Parker RIPE NCC Registration Services