Hi, Am 20.05.2011 um 12:11 schrieb Emilio Madaio:
Dear Colleagues,
A proposed change to RIPE Document ripe-509, "IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy for the RIPE NCC Service Region", is now available for discussion.
You can find the full proposal at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2011-03/
We encourage you to review this proposal and send your comments to <address-policy-wg@ripe.net> before 17 June 2011.
In short: I support the proposal, because it clarifies the obvious. I tried to follow the discussion up to now and i'm not convinced of any of the possible downsides mentioned. Although i like to raise a little concern about the vague point 4 - Insufficient address space : Do we really want to tell the hostmasters/IPRAs to allocate 2x /25, 4x /26 8x /27 ... and so on to LIRs in the end? I mean, "routing" is out of scope (and should be), but... This might be not so awkward with IPv4 PI assignments right now since there actually might be some end users who don't care for internet routability at all, but for allocations? I'm not sure putting something like ".. allocate multiple /24s" or similar in a policy would be a better choice though. (I hope this wasn't already discussed in a thread i didn't read properly) -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards Sascha Lenz [SLZ-RIPE] Senior System- & Network Architect