Dear WG, On 24 November 2016 13:16, Marco Schmidt wrote:

A new RIPE Policy proposal 2016-05, "Synchronising the Initial and Subsequent IPv6 Allocation Policies" is now available for discussion.

The goal of this proposal is to match the subsequent IPv6 allocation requirements with the initial allocation requirements.

I am pleased to see the arrival of this policy proposal as whilst the additional assessment criteria introduced by proposal 2015-03 allowed the legitimate requirements of a broader range of organisations to be satisfied it was of benefit only to those that had not previously received address space (and/or those in a position to return/exchange it). These same requirements do however exist equally for many other organisations who should not be discriminated against simply because they happened to have received their initial allocation under the previous assessment criteria. The proposed policy serves to remove this discrimination and provide the same benefits to all, notwithstanding the unavoidable practical difficulty of providing contiguous address space to organisations who may find themselves 'landlocked' by allocations already made to other organisations. In light of the above I fully support the adoption and implementation of the proposed policy. Regards, Mathew