Hi, On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:06:37PM +0100, michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
as the comment period for the v3 of 2007-08 is nearing its end (one week left), please send your comments about it to the list.
2007-08 <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2007-08.html> is a dishonest policy. It enables buying and selling of IP address blocks without saying anything about how this relates to the statement in RIPE-421 (The IPv6 policy) which says:
It is contrary to the goals of this document and is not in the interests of the Internet community as a whole for address space to be considered freehold property.
Why should an IPv4 policy document take IPv6 policy documents into account? "Different circumstances".
2007-08 should be rejected because no consensus has been formed and
This is exactly the point of a "v3" of this document: take into account previous discussions and comments, and try finding a consensus on the reworked document. The argument "I reject this version because no consensus was formed on a previous version" is not a very useful contribution, in itself - if you have specific issues with *v3* (or your concerns about v1 and v2 are still un-addressed), please voice them. Gert Doering -- APWG chair -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 128645 SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279