Re: IPv6 request form for Internet Exchange Points

[Robert Kiessling <]

Fearghas McKay writes:
 > We don't really think that consensus has been reached yet. We have
 > discussed lot's of details at the mailing list, but the community at
 > large did not have a chance yet to approve a final proposal.

Erm, the community did have many chances to disapprove, and in the end
only mostly minor details were still discussed, apart from voices
which would like to have allocations made to exchanges. If that's
really wanted, then this path is still open, but that would take more
effort.

 > As chairpeople of two of the respective working groups, we asked the RIPE NCC
 > to schedule a slot at the next meeting in order to have a final
 > discussion regarding this very topic.

And then there's a summary on the mailing list, and then some more
exchange on the mailing ist, and then again some discussion on the
next meeting ...

This has gone on for too long already, and many people want to see it
implemented and get started. The issue is nothing fundamental - it's
basically that RIPE itself does what anyone else could do, to assign
address space to IXPs.

 > We would like to ask you to suspend the proposed policy until we have
 > had a chance to ask the RIPE community for approval.

Please don't!

Robert