Hi Gert, That is what we have, the current "Temporary Internet Number Assignment
Policy", ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-526 - it does that, but as Randy noticed, it has clauses in there that are hard to fulfill for routing experiments ("50% usage" in 3.3).
+1, any research in the control plane is certainly hampered by this restriction, and I don't see any benefit here for anyone
I *do* like the suggestion Daniel Karrenberg made how to tackle this - give the NCC more liberty how to handle "experiments" by consulting, if needed, with an expert panel. I do see the issue in defining "expert", but maybe this could be made sufficiently lightweight - "ask for a volunteer group of individuals that have had hands-on experience with BGP routing for <n> years" (because, I think, that's really the crucial part here, to differenciate from other setups that can do the 50% just fine, or use RFC1918 space instead).
+1 as well
I'd volunteer, I'm good at not-liking things :-)
I would be a volunteer as well (on my spare time, I'm not sure I could convince my employer of the benefits to its activities) In my case, n>12 :-)
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?
Not yet, but the day is still young. Stéphane Dodeller