[lir-wg] Re: [ipv6-wg@localhost] Experimental IPv6 address allocations policy
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:42:57 -0800
Pekka,
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:45:11PM +0300, ext Pekka Savola wrote:
>
> I just recently noted that experimental IPv6 address allocations have been
> "sneaked in" the policy, as seen in:
>
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6policy.html#experiment-assignments
>
> I must heavily object to this for a few reasons:
>
> 1) the intent is to keep the policy uniform, and this has not been
> discussed in the global-v6 policy mailing list.
>
> 2) RIPE43 minutes (posted on Oct 19 2002) list that this should be turned
> into a draft proposal [note: the URL for the presentation does not work];
> There was a draft proposal on 28 Nov 2002 on "DRAFT: Experimental
> Internet Resource Allocations & Assignments". This is no longer available
> so I cannot verify the contents.
>
> 3) On 22 Jan 2003, new RIPE documents, 263 and 267 are available; these
> incorporate an experimental addressing policy.
>
> To my knowledge and according to my mail archives, neither of these has
> *ever* been as much as mentioned in the mailing lists (either ipv6 or lir
> wg) - not a single message.
I agree with your assessment. I don't agree with the procedure that
was followed to get the wording on experimental addresses in the
policy.
> Is this sufficient in determining this is really what community wants?
No.
David K.
PS please post follow up messages to the lir-wg only, the lir-wg deals
with policy issues.
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