[ncc-services-wg] [routing-wg] RIPE Document Published - ripe-555, Address Space Managed by the RIPE NCC

On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:24:31 +0200, Andrea Cima <andrea at ripe.net> said:

> Dear colleagues,

> The RIPE Document ripe-555, "Address Space Managed by the RIPE NCC", has
> been published. The document is available at:
> https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-555/

> This RIPE Document updates ripe-510 and now points to the extended
> delegated statistics containing the full list of resources that the RIPE
> NCC manages.

> The document also reflects the fact that the RIPE NCC needs to be able
> to issue blocks of any size from any /8, so the document was updated
> accordingly.

Am I the only one who is confused by this document?  I don't care much
about IPv4, but this scares me:

  The smallest prefix assigned by the RIPE NCC from any IPv6 range is a /48.

At the same time, this text from RIPE-510, Section 4 has been removed

  Network operators taking routing decisions based on prefix length
  are requested and encouraged to route at least blocks of sizes
  corresponding to the longest prefix and larger.

If this means what I naively think it does, I'd have missed the entire
discussion about what I would perceive as a fundamental change in
policy.  So, I guess I'm just thoroughly confused.  Can somebody help
me understand what exactly RIPE-555 means?

-- 
Alex